I was at the Theatre Royal in Newcastle last Thursday evening, waiting for Madame Butterfly to begin, when I turned to my friend and asked if she'd been watching Coronation Street recently.  Yes I have she replied, even though... Read more

  Thank you, Sue, David, Maureen, Laurie and the Writelink community as a whole - because without you, my writing life would’ve felt bereft.  (No, I’m not drunk, even if I have had a sherry or two that was left over from t... Read more

Mazrilyn Marilyn Sylvester My poetry win, as published in the Pages, Issue 4 ezine:http://tinyurl.com/ckwxxhf It seems like many a lifetime has since passed. 3 minutes ago Mazrilyn Marilyn Sylvester Working on a poem for the: eleventh hou... Read more

  http://www.nationalpoetryday.co.uk/ The theme for National Poetry Day is based on Games, so this poem that was written in collaboration with my grandson, last year, is my contribution.     The poem was one of three publish... Read more

Who is the present Children's Laureate?  Think Gruffalo.   Yesterday, on Radio 2, the presenter Graham Norton was interviewing Jacqueline Wilson.  She was the Children’s Laureate between the years 2005-7 and received a bursar... Read more

Carol Ann Duffy claims that: Poems are a form of texting.  I knew this texting lark would come back to haunt me: http://tinyurl.com/45xj28d    

North Country Theatre Artistic Director: Nobby Dimon  http://www.northcountrytheatre.com/artdir.html has directed yet another play which was absolutely oar-some.  The matinée production was staged, once again, at the Hutton Rudb... Read more

This has been adapted from an article featured in the Guisborough Life magazine.  Thanks to Derek for letting me publish this on my blog. We were delighted to find that Derek Brown, who is one of our neighbours, has a close connection wit... Read more

Tea Time Morsels is a collection of bite-size tales, based on ordinary people's lives and made all the more remarkable due to their many delightful twists. The stories are portrayed through a varying age range of characters, thereby reflecting v... Read more

"The first of April is the day we remember what we are the other 364 days of the year."  Mark Twain