The Success of the Second Oxford Indie Book Fair &why it is needed.
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04, 2022
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02, 2022
My friend Weimin He’s highly recommended online workshops
Weimin says ‘I spent an hour and a half in the print room to study Raphael’s original drawing. I tried to draw the same size as the original and I presume Raphael might have spent no more than 1.5 hours
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02, 2022
The Food of Love. Cooking up a Life …coming soon
Gosh .. Claret Press has started to promote my memoir! https://www.claretpress.com/ Do you like the cover? Food_of_Love_Cover_ Writing the lives of the 118 Oxford castaways and the fictional memoir of artist Little Winter in Brushstrokes in Time made me start
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04, 2021
Oxford the Hollywood of Stories and how hard it is to talk about me.
When she interviewed me for her podcast, Yang May and I discovered a common passion for libraries and storytelling. I hope my stories are global but they arise from the web of connections to all continents that you find in
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04, 2021
The joy of learning from each other; my reflections on multi-culturalism
Reflections on Multi Culturalism In the Madras Courier Anurag Mishra and Paras Ratna posed the question, ‘To what extent can a society accommodate multiculturalism?’ As someone who risked my own future and that of my future children by marrying someone
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02, 2021
The importance of not stereotyping. Everyone is unique and has a unique story to tell.
Andi Osho on Saturday Live (Dec 20 ) talked about how people of colour are often stereotyped not necessarily in a bad way but with little room for individuality. I’m writing my memoir and I recalled this incident from 1980
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12, 2020
When things go badly- Don’t despair but be open to possibilities even if you must create them.
Today , BBC4 Saturday Live asked listeners to share their stories of leaps in the dark. It started with Ian Rankin describing how he and his wife gave up well paid jobs to renovate an old house in rural France
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09, 2020
Statues have become contentious. Who decides which heroes and heroines we should celebrate?
Why are there , to my knowledge, few statues in the UK to truly good people like Sir Roger Bannister but plenty to men who exploited their fellow human beings or made their mark using legal violence in war? My
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08, 2020
Still musing about Walls: memories of Bill Heine , the Berlin Wall and Belfast Wall
The Shark House is one of Oxford's favourite landmarks . Its mostly associated with the late Bill Heine and the artist who made it is often forgotten. John Buckley is not as celebrated as he should be . Bill
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08, 2020
African soldiers in WW2and how they were thanked – and Brian Aldiss&the Forgotten Army .
African soldiers in WW2and how they were thanked - please read this. I was delighted that The Today Programme had a Ghanaian tell the story of the war in Burma. on this anniversary of # VJ Day Not many people