Lonely hearts: Iago in Othello
Secretive ‘editor’ seeks non-scene ex-soldier…
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Lonely hearts: Noddy by Claire Aindow
Toyboy seeks bellringer. Big ears optional.
Lonely Hearts by Mark Wrigley: Macbeth
Ambitious Scottish Soldier wltm Killer Queen!
Lonely hearts by Mark Wrigley : Pip and Miss Havisham In Great Expectations
Gentleman with high hopes seeks star! Hurt lady seeks susceptible listener’s heart!
Lonely Hearts:Elizabeth Bennett
Spirited beauty seeks wealthy, solemn enigma!
Lonely hearts: King Lear
Aged bankrupt wltm respectful widow – soon
Lonely hearts: Count Dracula
Lonely insomniac, seeks lively, versatile companion!
Ian Rankin's Exit Music: Comfort for colds!
It’s the season for catarrh! Children are back at school and the supermarkets are selling lots of boxes of cheap tissues and of course, anti-nit shampoo. Today I am… Read More »Ian Rankin's Exit Music: Comfort for colds!
aquarium
There were three fish in the aquarium today and Miriam was glad. Yesterday she had worried about the smallest pink fish and had tried to tell her mother that she… Read More »aquarium
Oscar Wilde's The Importance of being Earnest!
A Perfect candyfloss of a play or is there something more important lurking about its fringes?! ”’Never speak disrespectfully of Society, Algernon. Only people who can’t get into it… Read More »Oscar Wilde's The Importance of being Earnest!
bandit two
‘Hot tea is so rare for me these days.’ The darkest brown eyes lingered on mine and her top lip lifted into a smile. Her hands held the cup as… Read More »bandit two
Carol Ann Duffy's Mrs Lazarus and the savagery of loss!
Mrs Lazarus I had grieved. I had wept for a night and a dayover my loss, ripped the cloth I was married infrom my breasts, howled, shrieked, clawedat the… Read More »Carol Ann Duffy's Mrs Lazarus and the savagery of loss!
Bandit
Ghosts have wet hair in the morning like the rest of us. There I was lighting up like Belmondo when this rivulet came down my arm and this pale woman… Read More »Bandit
polka
It was the air around her. It felt peppery, electrical, complicit. Chris kept stumbling around this woman as if involved in some ancient pageant or dance. Her own breath mingled; spearmint and… Read More »polka
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fountain laughter showers, smiling toes kiss
Avalon One
She made him want to say words like fustian and yeoman. Sedge and samite. Everything was texture with him. His skin, his clothes, his breath, his words as they leaked… Read More »Avalon One
Twelfth Night Act One: Revitalising Language!!
Twelfth Night Act One: Night language? Twelfth Night reminds us how we can fall in love! One moment we are going about our daily lives rearranging details, assuming contentment; the… Read More »Twelfth Night Act One: Revitalising Language!!
Carol Ann Duffy's Education for Leisure ban-the lunatics are taking over the asylum!
Apparently AQA examination board have taken the very difficult decision to ban Carol Ann Duffy’s dramatic monologue ‘Education for Leisure’ after the dizzying pressure of THREE complaints… Maybe irony has… Read More »Carol Ann Duffy's Education for Leisure ban-the lunatics are taking over the asylum!
In Mrs Tilscher's Class by Carol Ann Duffy continued from earlier blog
You could travel up the Blue Nilewith your finger, tracing the routewhile Mrs Tilscher chanted the scenery.Tana. Ethiopia. Khartoum. Aswan.That for an hour, then a skittle of milkand the chalky… Read More »In Mrs Tilscher's Class by Carol Ann Duffy continued from earlier blog
September – new beginnings, so much newness!
Secondary school signals a time of great change for all children and their families. This is especially so for children with ASD’s as ‘change’ so often gives rise to seemingly… Read More »September – new beginnings, so much newness!
Carol Ann Duffy on Creating a poem's beginning…
”The beginnning of a poem is always a moment of tiny revelation,” she explains, “a new way of seeing something, which almost simultaneously attracts language to it – and then… Read More »Carol Ann Duffy on Creating a poem's beginning…
Extract from Tusitala's Review of Bleak House
Like so many relationships, Bleak House begins in the fog: ‘Fog everywhere. Fog up the river…fog down the river…chance people on the bridges…with fog all round them.’ Repetition breeds a… Read More »Extract from Tusitala's Review of Bleak House
Katherine Mansfield's Journal
‘I haven’t written a word since October and I don’t mean to until the spring. I want much more material: I am tired of my little stories like birds bred… Read More »Katherine Mansfield's Journal
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Hellboy 2 The Golden Army
A fabulous feast for the eyes and heart. Del Toro’s creature feature surprises at every turn. Visually it is a romp through the so many ‘what ifs’ of cultural references… Read More »Hellboy 2 The Golden Army
Angel Coffee for men!
George had been reading The Scarlet Pimpernel. No one had come up and knocked or burst into this pale green room and for once he didn’t care if Demeter had… Read More »Angel Coffee for men!
Harlan Coben: The Woods
‘I see my father with that shovel.’ Harlan Coben opens his bestselling crime novel The Woods with this disturbing recollection. Significantly it is ‘that shovel’ and as we accompany the… Read More »Harlan Coben: The Woods
Carol Ann Duffy and the intense physicality of loss in Mrs Lazarus, Demeter and Havisham.
I had grieved. I had wept for a night and a dayover my loss, ripped the cloth I was married infrom my breasts, howled, shrieked, clawedat the burial stones until… Read More »Carol Ann Duffy and the intense physicality of loss in Mrs Lazarus, Demeter and Havisham.
International Students are welcome!
Expert help and advice with Writing. Please see this Web-site and Writing blog for examples of our writing and work. We help students to attain their potential. GCSE, A Level,… Read More »International Students are welcome!
A Quiet Belief in Angels: R.J.Ellory
‘I am an exile’ states the ill starred narrator of Ellory’s homage to To Kill a Mocking Bird. We are holed up in a Southern small town scratching at the… Read More »A Quiet Belief in Angels: R.J.Ellory