Happy Planet Haiku
Thanks to writer and coastal chum Jennifer C Wilson for this wonderful write up
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Great Things
Poetry with Friends is a poetry appreciation group with a difference. In fact it comprises of two groups. There’s our Thursday morning one which meets in Whitley Bay library every…
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Coastal workshops
I’m running two writing workshops in Whitley Bay in the nearish future. They’re both in the evening at Boo Boo and Ted, 264 Whitley Road in Whitley Bay town centre….
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Souls found heaven
The New Hartley Pit Disaster of 1862 claimed the lives of over 200 men and boys. It decimated a small but tight-knit Northumbrian community and even tugged at the heart…
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New Year Fresh Ideas
Happy New Year and all that. I’ve not blogged for over a month. Ran out of energy last year but the New Year brings a burst of energy and a…
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Northern Stars
When I lived in London I practically tripped over celebrities. I walked past actors in the street (Hugh Grant, Martin Freeman) and served Hollywood stars and musicians in shops (Whoopi…
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Bricky-Dry
Throats are described as being “bricky-dry” in Rudyard Kipling’s poem Gunga Din, one of the many poems shared at last Thursday’s Poetry with Friends at Whitley Bay Library. My throat…
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Fenwick Fervour
Fenwick is a retail institution here in Newcastle. John James Fenwick of Richmond, North Yorkshire chose to open a shop on the city’s main shopping street in 1882, a whole…
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Fireworks, Soup & the Silver Screen
The theme of Tuesday night’s Poetry with Friends at The Mission in North Shields was “Fireworks and Other Celebrations.” I struggled to find poems to fit so took along Fleur…
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We have lift off!
Not one but two book launches last Tuesday 27th October. That’s right, two book launches here in North East England. Who says there’s no culture up here? I got invited…