Hello everyone and sorry it’s been a while. The sad truth is that I have been caught up in a job interview situation which has completely messed with my writing head and taken up all mental space for a good couple of weeks. Having fallen at the final hurdle it now seems like a so … Continue reading Not so light relief
Best mate and I recently joined a choir – strictly for fun – and fun it thas been, though now that the night of our first ever concert is approaching and I still haven’t really grasped the alto line of Bohemian Rhapsody (!), I am starting to get butterflies. Now a bad throat has also … Continue reading Musical Interlude
A hasty post so that you can all read Shirley Wright’s prize-winning poem in the Sunday Telegraph Poetry for Performance competition. All the prize-winning poems were printed in yesterday’s paper (p.20!) where Shirley’s was highly praised by Ben Okri. All the short-listed poems can be read on the website. Shirley’s winning entry, ‘My Father’ is … Continue reading Poetry for Performance
Several years ago we happened to be in Amsterdam during the fantastic Van Gogh and Gaugin exhibition ‘The Studio of the South’. The paintings were sublime and the audio commentary fascinating, so this painting (thanks Wikipedia commons) makes a fitting finale for my yellow week. Meanwhile, issue 1 of The Yellow Room has arrived and I leapt … Continue reading Yellow period ends soon
Juliet of Mersea gave me this great idea of including Cold Play in my yellow theme week. Apart from the obvious reason, I also have a bit of a thing for Chris Martin, so here he is at Glastonbury 2005 via Youtube. I believe this kind of music is called ‘mum rock’, but I’m a … Continue reading Still in yellow mode
