This isn’t my first entry into this diary but the first one I have chosen to share with the world. I ramble to myself most days using my quill and my leather bound note book as my tools. It was during one of these ramblings I had one of my moments, “Why don’t I share […]

I have soooo much to do – I don’t know about you? I always do this thing, you know how it goes, “Everything will be much quieter in such a such month, I will do it then”. I am now taking the honesty pill more regularly and it helps me see that there will never

I know everyone will be writing about Queen Elizabeth II and/or King Charles III this week but I had already planned to write something about ‘The Green Writer’. As our new King is a big supporter of saving the earth, I have decided to go ahead with this subject. However, before I go on, I

Let me paint you a picture. As one of my things in life is paint manufacture, I am sure you will indulge me a little illustration. Here is a little story to get us in the mood for the rant that follows….   Far, far away a small, very small woman bustled up the street.

I live, at the moment, between two places ‘Dementia Island’ and ‘Manufacturing Island’. I don’t know if any of you have seen the film ‘Inside Out’? If you haven’t you should. In this film we explore a child’s emotions and sometimes those of her parents. In the child’s ‘Headquarters’ the emotions are there helping the

I came over all ‘Old Peculier’ last week. Yes, that is how you spell ‘Peculier’ and I was in Harrogate at the Theakston’s Old Peculier Crime Writing Festival. Before I go on and apropos to nothing other than widening your vocabulary, a peculier is an ecclesiastical district, parish, chapel or church outside the jurisdiction of

“Never Stop Learning because Life Never stops Teaching” ANON   I am sure I can and will return to this subject many times.‘Teaching and Learning’ is almost an academic subject area. It is talked about in schools when I think what they really mean is pedagogy without much consideration for the learning bit. Teaching is

“Never Stop Learning because Life Never stops Teaching” ANON Having come up with this title, I am not sure if I want to witter on about learning and teaching or the power of quotations. As a result, I will split this over two missives and I am going to start with quotations. A quotation is

Room lit with artificial light, in a basement with no distractions? OR a desk in front of a window looking out over the sea? Where do you like to be to write or learn or both? I am fairly allergic to the former, if I am honest and yet I worked in a room for

I’m on holiday! Yeahhh but hang on….. so why am I writing this stuff today? There are a few reasons I suppose but it has encouraged me think about, “What is a holiday?” It is a fairly new thing for the working classes from which I hail (yes I am part agricultural labourer and part