I'm the speaker at an informal get together, as part of a series of speaker-ed coffee mornings, at the New Inn pub in Ruspidge, Forest of Dean. Website is: www.newinnruspidge.co.uk and phone number is 01594 824508.
I'll be doing a reading from my 'From Wear To Wye' anthology, and will be answering questions and generally chattering to anyone who's there and wants to ask or chatter along with me. The pub's in the traditional style and I like that it's putting on as wide a range of activities and events as it can while staying in the trad style of pub. Very friendly, very cosy.
That date is Tuesday 6th April, day after Easter Monday. Reasonably priced soup and a roll on offer. And my chatter o'course :-)
Another date, Saturday evening 22nd May, Lydbrook Church of Holy Jesus - the big one on the hill going out to Joys Green. I'm leading and reading in 'On That Note' - an evening in the company of local writers, with musical interludes. I'll post the flier once it's finalised, but the writers are me with my autobiographical/travel journal tales ... Christina Hollis, writer of Harlequin tales - but we're in church, right, so Christina will be reading from her short stories, the Harlequins will be available on sale, and Rebecca Tope, writer of popular series, the Cotswold Mysteries and also the writer of the Rosemary and Thyme crime novels.
More details to follow, but there'll be readings and a question and answer time, and music in between. Not to mention the absolutely gorgeous church as setting, tis beautiful!
That's me for now
Back soon, cos I still haven't mentioned the Monmouth event last Monday
My life as a writer, dramatist, editor, curriculum consultant ... and meanderer! By Fi Benson
Wednesday, 24 March 2010
What time is it Mr Wolf?
Blimey oh, look at the time, it's March! How did that happen?
Since the last posting back in December I have been busy ...
being entranced by the extended snowfall ... high on a hill in me cosy coat, yodel a-ee, yodel a-ee, yodel-a-ee-o ... up Worral Hill in the freezing cold, yodel a-ee, yodel a-ee, yodel-ayyyyyy ...
I can't think that's how you spell all those yodels though, ne'er mind.
The 'high on a hill' lines are the start of a poem that I performed at Maggie Clutterbuck's Poetry Evening at the Annexe in Lydney in February, great fun evening. The poem's called 'The Important Question', it's definitely a winter-seasonal poem, so maybe catch me for a rendition next winter ...
Further writings from the snowbinding include the tale 'The Anagantian Enchantment', well, it's called that at the moment, but it might also appear as 'Lullaby', haven't decided yet. Marquez seems to have squeezed his fabulously magic-realist way into it too
writing Sea-Fruit for the Coleford Festival of Words' March cabaret at the Kavern Bar in Coleford ...
working with some gifted and interestin' children at Steam Mills primary school in the Forest, doing a project called 'The Weather Machine'. The school has its own weather station, which I think is very, very cool ...
playing country kitchen and making loadsa Indian food and spicy stews
meandering ... more of that in postings-to-come and in my next book of tales which I'm busy compiling, hope to have a publisher for the finished version some time late summer or early autumn
supporting the fundraising for Lydbrook Church, more of that anon
preparing for my firstest ever visit to the US, more of that anon also
writing Wolf Month, another tale for the CFOW cabaret evening methinks
Anyways, that's a quickie summary just so we're all catched up ... sort of.
My next posting won't be so long in coming, because I just have to tell you about a great pub in Monmouth that I visited for the first time on Monday evening - the pub that is, I've been a Monmouth-loiterer for decades
Hope you're all well!
xx
Since the last posting back in December I have been busy ...
being entranced by the extended snowfall ... high on a hill in me cosy coat, yodel a-ee, yodel a-ee, yodel-a-ee-o ... up Worral Hill in the freezing cold, yodel a-ee, yodel a-ee, yodel-ayyyyyy ...
I can't think that's how you spell all those yodels though, ne'er mind.
The 'high on a hill' lines are the start of a poem that I performed at Maggie Clutterbuck's Poetry Evening at the Annexe in Lydney in February, great fun evening. The poem's called 'The Important Question', it's definitely a winter-seasonal poem, so maybe catch me for a rendition next winter ...
Further writings from the snowbinding include the tale 'The Anagantian Enchantment', well, it's called that at the moment, but it might also appear as 'Lullaby', haven't decided yet. Marquez seems to have squeezed his fabulously magic-realist way into it too
writing Sea-Fruit for the Coleford Festival of Words' March cabaret at the Kavern Bar in Coleford ...
working with some gifted and interestin' children at Steam Mills primary school in the Forest, doing a project called 'The Weather Machine'. The school has its own weather station, which I think is very, very cool ...
playing country kitchen and making loadsa Indian food and spicy stews
meandering ... more of that in postings-to-come and in my next book of tales which I'm busy compiling, hope to have a publisher for the finished version some time late summer or early autumn
supporting the fundraising for Lydbrook Church, more of that anon
preparing for my firstest ever visit to the US, more of that anon also
writing Wolf Month, another tale for the CFOW cabaret evening methinks
Anyways, that's a quickie summary just so we're all catched up ... sort of.
My next posting won't be so long in coming, because I just have to tell you about a great pub in Monmouth that I visited for the first time on Monday evening - the pub that is, I've been a Monmouth-loiterer for decades
Hope you're all well!
xx
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