Lecturing appearances 2020 – 2021 Lecturing appearances 2020 Lecturing appearance – Thursday 2nd January 2020 | Time TBA | “Charlatans Frauds and Fools” Hale & District U3A – Time and venue to be advised – “Charlatans Frauds and Fools” Based … Continue reading
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A New Christian Creed – Comments from Christians, all other Faiths and Atheists appreciated!
A New Christian Creed – Comments from Christians, all other Faiths and Atheists appreciated! A New Christian Creed – What Christians believe Christian churches are characterised by “creeds”: systems of belief to which members must, at least nominally, subscribe in … Continue reading
“A MESSAGE TO THE CHILDREN” A GUIDE TO WRITING AUTOBIOGRAPHY. – “MY HOLIDAYS” – LESSON EIGHT
MY HOLIDAYS Waterside was a caravan park by a rocky cove. The railway line ran next to it, taking trains to Paignton and Torquay. At the age of eight I sat on the grassy embankment and watched the Great Western … Continue reading
A GUIDE TO WRITING AUTOBIOGRAPHY. – “THE LAST COWBOY IN WREXHAM” – LESSON FOUR – By Jim Williams
LESSON FOUR – THE LAST COWBOY IN WREXHAM Hughie Williams was an Indian fighter. He and his drinking pal, my Uncle Denis, killed the last one in Wrexham, in the summer of 1954, one morning shortly before breakfast, while Little … 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
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
Cruising – 26 November – 10 December
To my surprise I am to be a lecturer on a Fred Olson cruise to Morocco and the Canaries in late November-early December this year. It came about because Shirley and I did a cruise in the Baltic in 2010 … Continue reading