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  • At the year’s halfway point

    At the year’s halfway point

    My children’s exams are over.  For my son, a season of campouts and festivals has already begun. My daughter also has exciting, if slightly less grungy, plans.  Four years worth of scrawled-on paper, deep piles of exercise books, text books, files, revision cards, notebooks, stationery, bottles of Rescue Remedy, school uniforms, pots of lunch money Read more

  • Greetings from the middle of exam season

    Greetings from the middle of exam season

    It’s full on, double whammy, GCSE and A Level year in our house. For visitors who don’t know, GCSEs (General Certificates of Secondary Education) are the first public exams most young people sit after five years of secondary schooling in England and Wales (I think Scottish students sit exams called Standards). ‘A’ Levels (Advanced Levels) are Read more

  • Hilda Sheehan plus Open-Mic at Drawing Projects UK

    Hilda Sheehan plus Open-Mic at Drawing Projects UK

    Poet, editor, educator, and Director of Poetry Swindon and Swindon Poetry Festival, Hilda Sheehan will read from a selection of her published and new work at Drawing Projects UK (Bridge House – next to the train station) Trowbridge on Wednesday, 14th June, 7pm – 9pm.  This is a wonderful opportunity to hear an exciting, innovative Read more

  • Reading poetry to shoppers and passersby

    Reading poetry to shoppers and passersby

    Months ago, I received an email, out of the blue, from someone called Louise Betts who was organising acts to perform on the outdoor stages at The Bath Festival.  Would the Town Hall Poets like to appear? When I set up Town Hall Poets (who are also a Poetry Society Stanza) in September 2016, I Read more

  • Reading at Bath Festival, Saturday May 20

    Reading at Bath Festival, Saturday May 20

    Just to say that I’ll be reading with my Poetry Society Stanza group, The Town Hall Poets, this Saturday, May 20th, in Bath as part of the free events programme at Bath Festival. We’ll be on Southgate Stage (outside the Apple store) at 11am, then in Kingsmead Square from 12.30 – 1.15pm, in Alfred Street Read more

  • All quiet on the blogging front

    All quiet on the blogging front

    I’m not posting here as regularly as I used to.  It’s possibly because I’m using Instagram as a kind of blog, posting a picture and a little commentary over there quite frequently.  It’s an extremely easy way of posting so I can see why it’s become so popular.  Are you on Instagram? Give me a follow Read more