Posts Tagged ‘festive
Pookey and The Crazy Bear
Blog 5 – Pookey and the Crazy Bear – Ms Paige Turner tells an intentional fib each week. Be the first in to spot it and this week you could win a free taster session at Creative Ink for Writers to the value of £25.
What did you get for Christmas then? A new watch? More on watches later and more on ‘Pookey and the Crazy Bear’ – which is what my husband – I call him many things but let’s call him Mr Justin Case – got me for Christmas.
I want to talk about Master Mind as he has waited too long to be introduced. But like Ms Silver Screen Suppers www.silverscreensuppers.com said when I asked why I wasn’t one of the sixteen baubles on her Facebook Christmas Tree – ‘there just wasn’t the space’. Actually, I don’t want to be a bauble on Ms Silver Screen Suppers’ Christmas Tree – I just want her to keep commenting on my blog which she does. Bless her. I like Ms Silver Screen Suppers and I like Master Mind – which is handy as he is marrying my daughter – Miss Trial (the junior criminal barrister). Master Mind is very handy as he is the Lighting Director on my plays, has a double first from Uxbridge and knows all about the US losing patience with the Chinese over the exchange rate. I’ll be wearing a hat at the wedding – but not a red one as you know what they say about red hats.
Both my writing classes at the Fitzwilliams Centre will be running this term starting on Tuesday 11th (Get Inspired) and Thursday 13th (Get that Book) and there are a few places left. The theme for the Tuesday class is ‘Time’ to fit in with the Rhyme & Reason writing competition. For more details contact http://www.irhh.org/sitehome/pdf/fundraising/RRCompEntryForm.pdf
Talking of ‘Time’ – can Replica Watches please stop leaving messages on my blog inbox? I don’t believe you find my blogs riveting. I think you just want free publicity – which I do give to people when I think they are ‘quality’.
Talking of quality, my husband – Mr Justin Case – (so called because he always double checks bookings – which is handy when you are sitting at Cape Town airport the week before Christmas and had three Virgin flight cancellations and three black ladies are telling you there is no plane on the tarmac and you’ve phoned the butcher to double check the turkey arrival on Christmas Eve and why did my butchers find it hilariously funny that I was stranded in Cape Town?). I lost my patience and I’ve lost my thread. My husband didn’t buy me a watch for Christmas but he did buy me a Thai massage at the Crazy Bear in Beaconsfield. Pookey greeted me on Wycombe End by giving me a great bear hug and a kiss for the New Year. What a way to start it! Along with a reunion of deadly sins who were in my play ‘The Deadly Factor’ last year.
I thought that ‘Pookey and the Crazy Bear’ could be a great title for short story or poem. But please don’t get hung up on bears. Think about composing a ‘Dear John’ letter or email or text – because this year Creative Ink Publishing will be launching – amongst other things – a national writing competition on that theme. More details in a couple of weeks after my production meeting with Miss Juke Box (so called because she designs our flyers and builds our sets – her juke box for my first play ‘Blackberry Promises’ still in our garage) Master Sound Advice, Master Brylcream and of course … Master Mind.
Happy New Jahr!
At This Present Time …
Blog 4 – At this Present Time …
Rose Chaffe won herself a free taster for being first past the post to complete this old saying: Red Hat, No Drawers. Prostitutes in the nineteenth century were identified by the wearing of a red hat.
No-one writes or reads blogs the week before Christmas so this is short and snappy and I’ve been busy buying gifts at this present time, so I will be back on Monday 3rd January with a prize for the first to spot the intentional fib.
Oh … and watch out for those wearing red hats this festive season.
Red Hats and All Things Festive
Red Hats and All Things Festive (This week Ms Paige Turner invites you to complete a well known catch phrase to win a free taster session at Creative Ink for Writers in Beaconsfield.)
Well, in the last two weeks I had a plethora of pixies and kelpies purporting to be the intentional fib. My daughter (Miss Trial) – and never for a moment has she been one – was a kelpie and she only lasted six weeks in the Brownies as well. There really were fairies in my day and I don’t know why they were re-named. Maybe fairies aren’t politically correct but I still think most girls want to be one – and fairy princesses at that. So why not try Ms www.fairytaledays.co.uk (who has been an actress in Creative Ink for Actors since its inception in 2002 ) and buy a little girl a Red Letter Day for Christmas? More on all things red later as I haven’t finished with the fairies yet. I was briefly a gnome in Croydon. The brevity of my stay as a Brownie explains why I can’t tie knots. But I promise to do my best. Miss Trial isn’t dexterous either but it hasn’t stopped her becoming a junior criminal barrister. (I said junior criminal barrister!)
I will try to be brief. More on briefs later.
The intentional fib – oh – come on – if you have seen my play ‘The Deadly Factor’ is that Sloth must come after Gluttony. One has to have the energy to eat mince pies before one falls asleep comatose in front of ‘I’m a Celebrity, Get Me Out of Here’. Well done to Ms Sue Thairs – who has no wares for me to sell here but who is truly relieved to have won a DVD of my play as her kitchens and bathrooms have been under serious construction and she needs some light relief.
My blog is a little like that. Everyone still posts answers on my private email because they don’t know you have to click on the title of the blog for the response box to appear. Sue Thairs tried for ages to get into the box so I’m giving her the DVD as she was the first one to spot the incorrect order of those two sins.
I promised to introduce Mr Red Hat. I’ve known Mr Red Hat since we studied together at the Central School of Speech and Drama. He constructed my website (ITCS) and there is a link from my website www.janmoranneil.co.uk to my blog. I love telling this story about Mr Red Hat. We were asked to do a presentation for the charity ‘Shelter’ at the Royal Albert Hall for fifty youth clubs. Well, I thought it was fifty youth clubs so I didn’t bother to learn my lines as I was behind on The Larynx (we studied Voice). Mr Red Hat didn’t learn his lines either. When it came to the day, I thought I could hear an awful lot of people from the dungeons of the Royal Albert Hall and when I looked up to the dock – the Hall was filled. It’s a big hall. It holds eight thousand people. The organiser ripped my script away from me as I was ascending the stairs to the dock saying, “You don’t need this,” but Mr Red Hat saved my sausages. He made something up about Shelter caring – do you? He once completely made up the part of Pyramus in ‘A Midsummer Night’s Dream’ and he became a disc jockey which explains a lot. Anyway, I wanted to call him Mr Red Hat as it’s the name of his production company but he said I just made that up. Still, I like him and it’s a nice story.
So – in order to win a free taster session at Creative Ink for Writers – at the Fitzwilliams Centre, Beaconsfield – which begins Tuesday 11th January (‘Get Inspired’) and Thursday 13th January (‘Get that Book Out of You’) 10.00am until midday for six weeks – and if you are a lovely writer living in Florida or a lovely cousin living in Belfast and can’t get to … just give it away. It’s the first one in to complete this catch phrase correctly:
Red Hat, no … (what?)
1. CLICK ON THE TITLE TO SUBMIT BELOW THE BLOG.
2. CLICK ON THE BLOG TO READ PREVIOUS BLOGS.
3. CLICK THE BUTTON IN THE RIGHT HAND CORNER TO RECEIVE NOTIFICATION OF NEWLY POSTED BLOG. EVERY OTHER MONDAY – NEXT ONE – MONDAY 20TH DECEMBER.
4. EAT BEFORE YOU FALL ASLEEP THIS CHRISTMAS AND NOT THE OTHER WAY ROUND.
Miss Silver Screen Suppers knows how to do all the above as she always posts on my blog but you will have to wait until next time for her as Miss Connect says enough is enough. Sorry Master Mind …next time …along with news of Creative Ink Publishing.
Prize must be redeemed by June 2011.
