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Continue reading →: Superb Superbowl
What a game! The Falcons were up by 25 points and it looked like the Patriots were done for. One incredible catch by Edelman and a couple of 2 point conversions and it was 28 all after regular time. The legendary Tom Brady then found his receivers open and making…
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Continue reading →: Six Nations
For rugby fans the Six Nations is one of the most exciting sporting competitions. England are the team to beat this year and there are many non-English fans who relish a victory against the old enemy. Dylan Hartley is not my favourite rugby player, having committed so many fouls including…
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Continue reading →: A story comes together
If you haven’t looked at the MOOC creative writing page on this blog yet – why not? It has a gripping yarn that is growing into something amazing! I have been reviewed by a fellow MOOCer and have added some dialogue as she suggested.
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Continue reading →: When words weigh heavily
The agony of crafting good prose can be excruciating. So if my own writing suffers from mediocrity, be comforted that no writers were hurt in the process. Writers in garrets slaving away over ancient typewriters long into the night fuelled by hard liquor is an outdated characterisation. Some writers still write their…
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Continue reading →: Carl Frampton – now the rematch
Bad luck to Carl Frampton, our local boxing hero who was beaten by Leo Santa Cruz in Las Vegas on Sunday. He’s a brave young man with a chance to reclaim the WBA featherweight title. Bouncing back from defeats and setbacks is a real test of character. Carl seems to…
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Continue reading →: Prose Poetry
I get the idea of prose poetry as a freer way of expressing yourself, but I struggle to encapsulate ideas outside the rigid structure of a rhyming scheme. This link was quite helpful on the subject. I had this prose poem published in a community arts anthology some time ago…
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Continue reading →: No comment
I do the odd MOOC to jolt the grey matter out of my ennui. That is the sort of sentence you might read along with the hundreds of pithy remarks people feel the need to share online. Perhaps I should be more charitable, but as someone who is looking for…
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Continue reading →: Fact or Fiction
Storytelling is a time-honoured activity. The tales that are spun for young and old spark our imagination and transport us to other worlds by inviting us into the creative mind of the narrator. We suspend our disbelief and anything becomes possible in a land of fantasy. However, the current trend…
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Continue reading →: Schrödinger
It is surprising to me that of all the blogs I have posted, a correction about quantum physics famous thought experiment, Schrödinger’s cat, has received the most interest. The lost art of whittling got some attention, but my naïve attempts to reach a Chinese readership failed miserably. My writing is a…
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Continue reading →: Oh dear!
So much for optimism…already posted on the White House website “President Trump is committed to eliminating harmful and unnecessary policies such as the Climate Action Plan and the Waters of the U.S. rule”…gosh yes, who needs to do anything about climate change or water pollution if you can save a…
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