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A friendship in messages: with thanks to #RLS and @SandstonePress
Posted on April 15, 2021

A friendship in messages: with thanks to #RLS and @SandstonePress

Robert Louis Stevenson & J.M. Barrie, A Friendship in Letters, by Michael Shaw, Sandstone Press, 2020 “Write to me again in my infinite distance” So wrote Robert Louis Stevenson in the year 1893 from his home in Samoa to fellow writer J. M. Barrie who was in, or near, his native town of Kirriemuir in … Continue reading A friendship in messages: with thanks to #RLS and @SandstonePress

Intermission: COVID and the new normal
Posted on June 21, 2020

Intermission: COVID and the new normal

Lockdown. Is it over? Almost over? Most would have us think so, but I know it’s nothing like the end, and although I can accept there is something called the ‘new normal’ I have no appetite for it and is it really normal? As someone comments in today’s paper, after all the fanfare of easing … Continue reading Intermission: COVID and the new normal

Handel’s Messiah, not just for Christmas!  @messiahathome
Posted on May 27, 2020

Handel’s Messiah, not just for Christmas! @messiahathome

So what did you do during lockdown? Made sourdough? Learned a language? Maybe after a couple of weeks and having done none of those things (don’t mention the sewing) I was feeling underemployed, because on an impulse I signed up to a project to learn and sing the whole of the Messiah by the end … Continue reading Handel’s Messiah, not just for Christmas! @messiahathome

Not everything has come to a complete halt
Posted on April 13, 2020

Not everything has come to a complete halt

Sometimes it feels like everything has come to a halt but in the writing world it there’s more to do than ever and I have had to distance myself from social media to avoid feelings of not rising to the task! However that doesn’t mean you need to do the same, so here are a … Continue reading Not everything has come to a complete halt

A (virtual) day at the seaside
Posted on April 5, 2020

A (virtual) day at the seaside

Like so many things, our Bath Writers and Artists calendar has had to be rejigged and  our day of contemplating The Sea has been postponed. But with the coast out of bounds to everyone except its native inhabitants (how I wished I’d followed an urge to drive to Clevedon just before the lockdown!) what better … Continue reading A (virtual) day at the seaside

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