I’ve just returned from my 8th consecutive Edinburgh Festival. My publisher suggested I should blog a piece “in your usual style”. This implies I should do it as a murder mystery, which I don’t think is what she had in … Continue reading
Category Archives: Events
THE WILDERNESS FESTIVAL
Her Indoors and I were away at the weekend. Friends invited us to a “vintage fair that was attached to something called the Wilderness Festival, which comprised a dense encampment of pup tents in the park of some stately home … Continue reading
THE WIT AND WISDOM OF THE WILLIAMS BOYS – AWARD NOMINATION !!!
THE WIT AND WISDOM OF THE WILLIAMS BOYS – AWARD NOMINATION !!! Notwithstanding my critics, in a general way I don’t care to blow my own trumpet about my Great Achievements. I find it funnier to report my pratfalls and … Continue reading
The Wit and Wisdom Of the Williams Boys – after the Lymm Festival
On Thursday last the Williams Boys, alias me and my friend Alan, put on our long-anticipated gig at the Lymm Festival. It was a mix of music from Alan and readings from me, and the general theme was the writing … Continue reading
The Wit and Wisdom Of the Williams Boys
I’ve written before about the couple of planned gigs by Alan Williams and me at the Lymm and Buxton Festivals in July. He will deliver his songs and I shall read my verse and prose. We hope for international stardom, … Continue reading
BUXTON FESTIVAL
Fresh from our triumphant World Tour of Lymm, Alan Williams and I will be repeating our two-man show The Wit and Wisdom of the Williams Boys at the Buxton Fringe Festival. This is a one-off to be staged at the … Continue reading
Short Story Competition
I have been asked to judge a short story competition. It is open themed. If you are interested, go to www.multi-story.co.uk where details will appear after 1 March 2012.
Dance at Bollington Civic Hall – the Jalapenos – 18 February
Shirley and I were walking on Sunday on the hills above Bollington near Macclesfield, a pleasant stone-built industrial village strung along a valley among abandoned silk mills. In the car park we came across a poster for a village hop … Continue reading
NOT EXACTLY ROCKET SALAD
There really is a band by that name. My wife and I went to one of their gigs at the Spread Eagle in Lymm on Wednesday last. Alan Williams – no mean musician himself and a witty guy – pulled … Continue reading
Alan Williams at Lymm Festival
Alan Williams and friends are doing a gig in Lymm at 8pm on Wednesday 25 January. The title is Not Exactly Rocket Science. Alan is a talented musician with a dry and witty stick and anyone who goes to his … Continue reading