Red Hats and All Things Festive

Red Hats and All Things Festive (This week Ms Paige Turner invites you to complete a well known catch phrase to win a free taster session at Creative Ink for Writers in Beaconsfield.)

Well, in the last two weeks I had a plethora of pixies and kelpies purporting to be the intentional fib. My daughter (Miss Trial) – and never for a moment has she been one – was a kelpie and she only lasted six weeks in the Brownies as well. There really were fairies in my day and I don’t know why they were re-named. Maybe fairies aren’t politically correct but I still think most girls want to be one – and fairy princesses at that. So why not try Ms www.fairytaledays.co.uk (who has been an actress in Creative Ink for Actors since its inception in 2002 )  and buy a little girl a Red Letter Day for Christmas? More on all things red later as I haven’t finished with the fairies yet. I was briefly a gnome in Croydon. The brevity of my stay as a Brownie explains why I can’t tie knots. But I promise to do my best. Miss Trial isn’t dexterous either but it hasn’t stopped her becoming a junior criminal barrister. (I said junior criminal barrister!)
I will try to be brief. More on briefs later.
The intentional fib – oh – come on – if you have seen my play ‘The Deadly Factor’ is that Sloth must come after Gluttony. One has to have the energy to eat mince pies before one falls asleep comatose in front of ‘I’m a Celebrity, Get Me Out of Here’. Well done to Ms Sue Thairs – who has no wares for me to sell here but who is truly relieved to have won a DVD of my play as her kitchens and bathrooms have been under serious construction and she needs some light relief.
My blog is a little like that. Everyone still posts answers on my private email because they don’t know you have to click on the title of the blog for the response box to appear. Sue Thairs tried for ages to get into the box so I’m giving her the DVD as she was the first one to spot the incorrect order of those two sins.
I promised to introduce Mr Red Hat. I’ve known Mr Red Hat since we studied together at the Central School of Speech and Drama. He constructed my website (ITCS) and there is a link from my website www.janmoranneil.co.uk to my blog. I love telling this story about Mr Red Hat. We were asked to do a presentation for the charity ‘Shelter’ at the Royal Albert Hall for fifty youth clubs. Well, I thought it was fifty youth clubs so I didn’t bother to learn my lines as I was behind on The Larynx (we studied Voice). Mr Red Hat didn’t learn his lines either. When it came to the day, I thought I could hear an awful lot of people from the dungeons of the Royal Albert Hall and when I looked up to the dock – the Hall was filled. It’s a big hall. It holds eight thousand people. The organiser ripped my script away from me as I was ascending the stairs to the dock saying, “You don’t need this,” but Mr Red Hat saved my sausages. He made something up about Shelter caring – do you? He once completely made up the part of Pyramus in ‘A Midsummer Night’s Dream’ and he became a disc jockey which explains a lot. Anyway, I wanted to call him Mr Red Hat as it’s the name of his production company but he said I just made that up. Still, I like him and it’s a nice story.
So – in order to win a free taster session at Creative Ink for Writers – at the Fitzwilliams Centre, Beaconsfield – which begins Tuesday 11th January (‘Get Inspired’) and Thursday 13th January (‘Get that Book Out of You’) 10.00am until midday for six weeks – and if you are a lovely writer living in Florida or a lovely cousin living in Belfast and can’t get to … just give it away. It’s the first one in to complete this catch phrase correctly:
Red Hat, no … (what?)

1. CLICK ON THE TITLE TO SUBMIT BELOW THE BLOG.
2. CLICK ON THE BLOG TO READ PREVIOUS BLOGS.
3. CLICK THE BUTTON IN THE RIGHT HAND CORNER TO RECEIVE NOTIFICATION OF NEWLY POSTED BLOG. EVERY OTHER MONDAY – NEXT ONE – MONDAY 20TH DECEMBER.
4. EAT BEFORE YOU FALL ASLEEP THIS CHRISTMAS AND NOT THE OTHER WAY ROUND.

Miss Silver Screen Suppers knows how to do all the above as she always posts on my blog but you will have to wait until next time for her as Miss Connect says enough is enough. Sorry Master Mind …next time …along with news of Creative Ink Publishing.

Prize must be redeemed by June 2011.