How My Nana – Kathleen Earlam – Helped Me Become A Writer
Or How One Adoption Played A Crucial Role In Three Generations Of My Family Kathleen’s arm rests on an old printing press at the Beck Isle Museum in Pickering, Yorkshire. She possibly worked this exact machine – a Colombian Letterpress Double Demi – when she was a young woman...
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Dyslexia & The Reading Room: In Manchester Central Library With Jules Styles At An Interactive Literary Event by Quarantine Theatre Company
As it’s National Dyslexia Week, here’s a blog from the Nikki Wordsmith archives that touches on this topic in a celebratory neurodivergent way with the help of professional dog walker Jules Styles....
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Snezana Pupovic and The Art of Emotion at the World Event Young Artists
Last September a train hurtled itself along the tracks in a sorry state from Manchester to Nottingham, it took me with it and delivered me and my frayed edges into the New Art Exchange....
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David Shrigley and Colin Britt: Little Drawings for The Big Issue
"I sold 220 mags," said Colin, "it's a shame they couldn't have kept it running for a couple of weeks as the picture on the front is really funny and a lot of the customers were very chatty about it saying if they did or didn't like his work."...
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The 138th Kentucky Derby – The View from the Backside
In 2012, through the kind generosity of some American friends, I went to the Greatest Two Minutes in Sport – The 138th Kentucky Derby...
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