Archive for the 'December' Category
So another year is at it’s close and in it’s final throes.
For me 2008 will be the year of the inside view on the making of TV programmes through which I realised something about todays television – the writers, lead actors, producers and directors enthuse and extoll the virtues of the complex shots, how beautiful, [...]
It’s the ‘office party’ time of year. I should know, having been kept awake by the sound of my partner vomiting in the wee small hours last night. Considering his alter ego is ‘Cast Iron Stomach- Man’ that says something! Mind you he’s moved work departments twice in as many months recently, so he probably [...]
It’s snowing on WordPress, not very well but at least it’s snowing. Last night we had a power cut and were plunged in to a deep dark that had us trying to remember where the matches were. My daughter came to the rescue by using her mac book as a torch and all was well. [...]
One way or another, we are all ‘up against it’; financially, mentally, in whatever way that I’m sure we all are – stuck in that polarising tunnel of time that takes us from the edge of autumn up to Christmas and beaches us on January’s shore’s searching for signs of Spring.
The chatter on the airwaves [...]
Off to see ‘The Wriggly Nativity’ featuring those acclaimed and memorable lyrics “Wrig-el-lee Nah-tiv-it-tee… etc” Can’t wait to find out how some inventive person managed to link worms to the the birth of Jesus. Will there be Angels, Donkeys, Sheep, Kings, Mary, Joseph and a doll in swaddling (sheet wrapped round it)? Watch this space.
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This morning the lady over the road, who has come over to the UK to give birth, has gone in to the hospital for a caesarian. On a small back road a car skidded on black ice and ended up on its roof. Yesterday the empty school bus skidded round a bend and into a [...]
I’m sat here most Sundays.
I often look up, watching the shadows of birds flit across the windows
Catching the sudden shafts of sunlight -
Messages from God I don’t yet understand
This year we’ve had scaffolding -
Great steel poles cutting across my view of the angels,
And now it’s winter a weaker sun shines.
The pew is harder in the [...]
One of my favourite Christmas books is ‘Light Unlocked’ edited by Kevin Crossley-Holland & Lawrence Sail with lovely engravings by John Lawrence. I discovered it three years ago, it’s published by Enitharmon Press and full of good seasonal poetry by contemporary writers like Seanus Heaney, Wendy Cope, George Mackay Brown, Rowan Williams (oh yes, the [...]
Artsmonkey’s other blog- National Theatre of Wales - Live launch November 5, 2009Today is November the fifth a day for plots and coup attempts, remember? Well today also marked the official launch of the National Theatre of Wales and boy did they do it in style. Not only were parties being thrown across Wales but Producer Lucy Jones and Artistic Director John McGrath shared the event online [...]
- Poetry: invitations October 7, 2009autumn haiku .CrispAutumn. Dead leaves hang from tree like brown butterfly cocoons. Seasons of nature. ©theboywyatt This week sees National Poetry day come around again. I have a love/hate relationship with this day ever since I was asked to be part of a team delivering ‘poetry on the buses’ with mixed success. Our carefully picked mix of contemporary and […]
- Beep, beep. Out of my way slow coach! August 31, 2009Haiku’s courtesy of ‘theboywyatt’ http://theboywyatt.blogspot.com/ .GoFasterStripes. Loudly tooting horn! flicking the V’s at the flash. Speeding road rager. ©theboywyatt, 2009 I recently attended a ‘speed awareness workshop’ having been caught speeding by one of Wiltshires 18 (approx.) mobile speed camera’s, like many other unfortunate motorists […]
- Sharing your talent… August 22, 2009
- National Theatre of Wales - Live launch November 5, 2009
