Here’s an opportunity to listen again to my interview with Carterton based leather artist, Trevor Lamb. Check out Trevor’s website for details of his latest projects and some images of his fantastic work! Edited Trevor Lamb Interview FINAL
It’s never much fun waiting in the doctor’s surgery. It’s up there with clearing customs and driving tests for things you’d rather not be doing. So, anything that makes it a more pleasant experience has got to be celebrated, I say! Next to the usual tattered copies of that’s life, Woman’s Day, and Hornby Magazine … More Poems in the Waiting Room
Wairarapa Word presents Eileen Van Trigt author of Beneath the Oak Trees, Sportin Life: Limericks and Close Encounters of the Furred (and Feathered) Kind Wairarapa Word is an event for poetry, comedy, stories and more. Each month, a writer is featured and an open mike is held for everyone to share work. This month, the featured writer … More Word up! Wairarapa Word, 2nd June, Almo’s Books, Carterton
Sadly, not the Arrow FM/Limelight Theatre production of Dylan Thomas’s play, Under Milk Wood, directed and produced by Michael Wilson and Eunice Radford. But huge congratulations to Christchurch’s Plains FM (96.9FM) Sounds Catholic – Tiger, produced by Ken Joblin, which has waltzed away with this year’s gong for NZ Radio Awards Best Community Access Programmes (Best Spoken/Informational English … More NZ Radio Awards: And the winner is…..
ReCooper8 started 2013 in the most promising way for a community arts show – I had the pleasure of interviewing Madeleine M Slavick, a locally based poet and artist with an international background and a global repertoire. We discussed her development as a writer, her time in Hong Kong, where she spent several years and … More My Interview with Madeleine M Slavick
How are your small stones going? Remember these? Short pieces of ‘writing that precisely capture a fully-engaged moment’, inspired by Fiona and Kaspa of the Writing Our Way Home blog? I confess, I’ve not managed one a day, but I did come up with one to-day! Here she goes… I’m reading my book in the square. When I … More Throwing another #smallstone into the River
A rare thing is happening this morning in my house. I am up, and nobody else is! The baby has gone back to bed… the bigger one is still snoozing. Husband is catching up on some zzzz’s having been up a lot of the night with the baby (I didn’t hear a thing! Promise!). And … More Something that has caught my eye this morning – the Mindful Writing Challenge
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