Hello!My feet have barely touched the ground this month. It’s good to be back to blogging! I was inspired by a poetry reading a friend took me to recently, where audience participation was encouraged (we dared each other to write and read out our work – it was good to be reminded of what it is...
Muswell Hill,
London
N10 1PP
Category: <span>North London</span>
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ROOTS
I woke up to a snowy North London this morning and went off to a networking group in Finchley, which I hadn’t been to before. When sitting in a lovely cafe with my friends & colleagues afterwards (this photo was taken there – a sketch of the venue), we got to talking about how we...
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2014 – FOUR SEASONS OF STORIES
Hello & welcome to the final Creative Writes blog post of 2014!I hope you have been enjoying the Festive Season and are looking forward to welcoming in 2015. It has been an incredibly fulfilling & varied 2014 for Creative Writes. I was able to build on work from previous years – running my regular Weekly...
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FREE YOUR WRITING!
My sister bumped into her neighbour the other day, who was writing in a cafe. She discovered that he was a script writer. She said that if he felt that his writing needed freeing, he should contact me! When she told me, I thanked her. I wasn’t only thanking her for spreading the word and...
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CHAIRS
Talking chairs I recently bought the second hand chairs pictured above. The online description was written for writers and it was impossible not to buy them! It said that the chairs were made in the 1960’s and were in a Community Centre in Wales – therefore they were sure to have lots of stories to...
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JOURNEYING HOME
Last Saturday, I moved into a new flat. It had been a hectic lead up to the big day, with so much to organise after almost 11 years in the old place. There was a moment, as I travelled in the removal van to help navigate the driver through the road closures(!), with my friends...
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HAVE YOU SEEN MY BULLDOZER?
Have you seen my bulldozer? My two year old nephew lost one of his favourite toys recently – his bulldozer. His sole mission became to find the missing bulldozer. Being very eloquent for a two year old, wherever he went – on a bus, to a party, into a shop – he would ask ‘Have...
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A WORD FROM LANNA…
Lanna Ford, our first volunteer! My Volunteer Experience with Creative Writes by Lanna Ford I have just completed a two-month volunteer placement with Creative Writes, which included attending all the workshops as a participant during that period. I came across this opportunity when I was looking for writing workshops to attend and I was happy...
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THANKSGIVING
Flowers for a C&C Care Home Workshop in Windsor Hello & welcome back to the Creative Writes blog, I am sorry it’s been a while – I guess it’s a good sign when the workshop leader is too busy running workshops, to update the Diary of a Workshop Leader!I have been thinking a lot about this...
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LOVE
Love This week, I began a series of poetry workshops in Care Homes for C&C (Central & Cecil), who manage homes and sheltered housing schemes for older people across London and beyond. I knew that many of the residents I would be working with would have dementia at varying stages. I have been preparing as much...