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Image source: https://www.pinterest.co.uk/pin/361413938825059128/ I have just had a pleasant encounter with a celebrity, who is known on British television for a programme called Coach Trip, as I visited the library this morning. Yes @brendan_sheerin was in there learning his lines for his role in this years pantomime at Hull New Theatre and given that I have had some experience in…
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#bloggingbranding In response to a challenge set by the Blogging University, in regards to setting aims and goals, here’s what I believe my aims to be: To gain followers: For a man of mature age who has embraced blogging and social media quite late on, I find myself almost ‘friendless’, especially in regards to social media.…
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What follows is something I have been working on as a result of an assignment for the degree last year. It is loosly based on my childhood although while some events actually happened (the opening scene, to my shame, is an example), I have fictionalised many others. Names, however, have been changed. I would love…
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The astute observer will have noticed I have been away for a while. There’s a good reason for that, a reason that is still as much a part of the journey I started following graduation. It wasn’t planned but I have been on a year long abstinence from technology, internet, smartphones etc, so I could…
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Today at my workplace a humble bumblebee came to rest on our doorstep (pictured above) obviously fatigued by the welcome warm weather the UK is experiencing at the moment. Concerned, we placed sugared water in its path which it sucked up with relish, every now and then it would attempt a flutter of its…
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As an advocate of education, it is good to know that lessons can come from anywhere, and if that lesson inspires then it is worth its weight in gold. Tonight I had the chance to listen to, and meet, one of the UK’s leading dramatists, John Godber, famous for Up n Under , which won an Olivier…