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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HAPPY NEW YEAR
Enjoying the snow! French Alps- January 2015 Happy New Year!I hope 2015 has started well for you. I have just returned from the French Alps. It was beautiful. There were times when the landscape looked as if it has been painted on. The air was incredibly clean and invigorating. I got to write, read, daydream, spend quality time with my friend,...
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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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DIGGING FOR STORIES
Hello, November is turning out to be another extremely busy month for Creative Writes! I have been continuing with the pilot series of reading sessions in C&C care homes for people with dementia and one of the poems we have been looking at is ‘Digging’ by Seamus Heaney. It’s been wonderful to share this with the groups,...
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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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BEING HUMBLE
St Pancras Renaissance hotel – ok, maybe not the most humble of surroundings! As suspected, September is turning out to be rather hectic! I have been packing up my flat to move at the end of the month and after several years of being in the same place – it feels like a big upheaval. In...
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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...