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Writing4Fun Christmas Special 2014
Writing4fun Monmouth is having its last session of 2014 on Thurs Dec 18th.
Usual time. Usual place.
9.30am to 11.30am. Monmouth Library.
Bring a book to share.
And any stories about BJ in hard copy.
“BJ was sitting in the park drinking lager. But his long black dreads caught Timmy’s attention and so BJ smiled and waved to him.”
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Writing4fun Summer 2014
Hi there!
Writing 4 Fun Monmouth starts again on thurs 8th may 2014.
It will be a guest session with David on ‘monologues’.
Check out Stanley Holloway and Joyce Grenville.
As usual at Monmouth library 9.30am to 1130am.
See you there 😉
The sky’s the limit            French Alps 2014
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Writing4Fun Monmouth
Writing4Fun restarting on Thurs 5th Sept 2013.
9.30am to 11.30am Monmouth library.
Don’t forget…
For more info on our sessions email: pat@paddlebrook.co.uk
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Snapshot: A writer’s life for me
Windows open to the smells of the countryside. Sun shining. Stornoway Hebridean lilt playing over me.
Beowulf and Anglo Saxon Chronicles in my head.
Mapping the Mind, Brilliant excel and
Alex’s adventures in Numberland at hand.
Owain’s Resistance on my mind.
Fingers poised.
Two whole days of writingness.
Pen with paper now covered in scrawls. as I eat tea and toast with the obligatory marmalade and Bovril.
As I move from night to work. Opening curtains and getting ready for the day, I see drawings of actors and musicians, Jack, Marlon, Johnny with Dylan and Mason. Each the product of other’s imagination and craft.
Now it’s my turn. The time has arrived. There is no escape.
Dust the crumbs off the keyboard. Press replay on the remote.
Tis time to play…
Photo: Hay Festival May 2011
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Bob Dylan at 70 – time and tide
Penblwydd hapus iawn iawn Dylan;
‘Some are mathematicians, Â Some are carpenter’s wives, Â I don’t know where they’ve been, Â Or what they’ve done with their lives.’ Â Tangled up in blue.
These Dylan lines and Three Cliffs Bay, Gower inspired the 10 min short film, I wrote last weekend.
My old mathematician friends, Â the Mull Historical Society and an Atrium theatre piece inspired this monologue poem celebrating time and our inspirations. Diolch yn fawr.
Time and Tide: an adaptation
The Zimmerman’s begat Robert.
Robert grabbed the words.
Guthrie’s words. Blake’s words. The people’s words.
He turned words to swords.
The times they are a changing.
Time is not on our side.
Tangled the words
To scream and screech across the world.
Time moved on
People sang
People rioted
People scrawled words on walls
People shouted,
People chanted.
People raved and
People ranted.
Celtic Chorus
We will laugh
We will laugh to the end of time.
To the end of tides.
Time and tides wait for no one.
Gran and Granddad begat the parent.
The parent begat Colin
Colin read Angus
Angus begat the poem.
Colin took the line.
He adapted the line
He churned it out into
The Mull Historical Society.
Celtic Chorus
We will laugh
We will laugh to the end of time.
To the end of tide.
Time and tide wait for no one.
The Book begat the Gathering
The Gathering begat more words
And so the journey
Over the undulating plane
Of the first universe continued.
The scientists played with strings
More universes were formed,
Moved shifted and collided.
One world, three cliffs, five platonic solids.
Some things change
Some themes stay the same
The journey continues
Time and the sands of tide
Drip and splutter through the vacuum.
The seas rise and envelop the earth.
They have before and they will again.
Celtic Chorus
We will laugh
We will laugh to the end of time.
To the end of tides.
Time and tides wait
Time and tides
Time
Time
Time.
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