Goalpost, Playing Fields and Botox

Blog 7 – Goalposts, Playing Fields and Botox. This week a free 1000 assessment (to be redeemed by end of April) for the first in to spot the intentional porkie pie.

Alas – I do not know my Latin from my elbows. I had lived my life believing that ‘eheu’ in Latin meant ‘alas’. Even Master Mind thought so. And whenever Mr Justin Case sneezes he shouts ‘eheu’. So it was an errant ‘p’ in ‘epheu’ I was looking for in the last blog as my intentional fib. But ‘eheu’ actually means oh or ow. ‘Vae’ means ‘woe’. ‘Heu’ is latin for ‘alas’. But what is a ‘p’ or an ‘e’ between friends? Well done Ms www.silverscreensuppers. A copy of my play ‘The Deadly Factor’ is winging its way to you.
Phew! Totally unrelated to anything at all, have you noticed that now Botox is available to the common masses the celebrated gentry have all changed their minds or moved the goalposts on their bumpy playing fields? They have been enjoying their closeted secret of uplifting for some years but now Janet down the Street or Lubyloo has access, it’s publicly declaimed. Ah, well, I never saw a goalpost during my education as I suffered from 52 week a year periods and a phobia of potholed playing fields. I just never had the right equipment for physical education.
Talking of education, I’m laying on a ‘Get that Book Out of You’ weekend course – From Pitch to Plot – on Saturday 21st May (10.00am until 4.00pm) and Sunday 22nd May (12.30pm-5.30pm) at the Fitzwilliams Centre, Beaconsfield for all those writers who work during the week and want to know how to get past the graduate in the corner of the publisher’s office with her calves knee deep in the slush pile. Enquire within if you would like to know how. And if you don’t work full time you can come in May or take the one place left on my Tuesday (Get Inspired) or Thursday (Get that Book) courses.
News coming shortly of the judge of Creative Ink Publishing’s international writing competition ‘Dear John, Dear Anyone …’ Up to 600 words. £5 entry for a charity TBA. Send to creativeinkpublishing@gmail.com and cheque made out to Creative Ink Publishing sent to 11, Pitch Pond Close, Knotty Green, Beaconsfield, Bucks HP9 1XY. Best of the bunch to be filmed by Creative Ink for Actors and winner gets £100.