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Continue reading →: Ale and Cider festival
One minor mishap made the start to my long weekend in Surbiton a bit fraught. Staggering in full from too many pints, I set the alarm for 4.30, drank a pint of water and went to bed. If only I had set the alarm to 4.30 am, instead of 4.30…
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Continue reading →: The Belfast Group
I recently came across another member of the Belfast Group of writers, Joan Newmann. The group included Seamus Heaney, Michael Longley, James Simmons and others who attended the workshops organised by Philp Hobsbaum, an English lecturer at Queen’s University Belfast (QUB). Joan Newmann’s slim booklet of poems, First Letter Home and…
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Continue reading →: Ecommerce 102 – the UK Business Startup Experience
Having wasted the chance to have a bespoke website built for me by a non-profit organisation, I looked at ways to do it myself. WordPress looked easy enough, but what did I know? Having set up some information on a few pages and posts, I realised that I lacked the expertise…
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Continue reading →: Ecommerce 101 – the UK Business Startup Experience
For some time I have been keen to set up an online business venture. My first foray into ecommerce was a website that offered custom written poems for all occasions. I used a template for the website and paid my monthly charges so that I did not have to worry…
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Continue reading →: Community Hub
David Puttnam, the renowned film director, has been living in Skibbereen, West Cork for 26 years. He was appointed the Digital Champion for Ireland and has achieved great changes in the technology infrastructure. Rural communities can follow the example of Skibereen. They set up a community digital data hub in a former cinema in the…
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Continue reading →: Creating a space for yourself
For most people space is a rare commodity. It helps if you can secure a physical location to do your creative work, but that is not always possible. If you equip yourself with the bare essentials to do your work, you shouldn’t need much more than a calm spot to get…
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Continue reading →: Tricks of the Trade
It’s always a good idea to watch a professional at work. My evening class was taught by a professional artist, Chris Dearden, an abrasive character from Huddersfield who moved to Northern Ireland in 1973. I had hoped to pick up a few tips on watercolour painting, and the evening did…
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Continue reading →: What’s in a word?
I was listening to the radio this morning when the word palimpsest cropped up in a conversation about Tory canvassing in Yorkshire. This is one of those words that I thought I had probably heard before, but never troubled to look up in the dictionary. The context in which it was used…
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Continue reading →: Creative Marketing of AK47
The Guardian newspaper reports that an AK47 is being offered as a top prize by Al-Qaida to young Yemenis entering a quiz. Second prize is a motorbike and third prize a laptop. Knowledge of the Koran is de rigeur and completed quiz forms can be handed in to your local…
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