Hi there, Following up from my Brave Theseus and the Minotaur (free play) post a few months ago, I am happy to offer my fellow teachers another one of my plays that you can use and adapt as you see fit. I put this on in school about 10 years ago and it went down pretty […]
Read more "The Baa-tivity (Free Nativity Play)"A bit of John Williams this week. Temple of Doom is sometimes looked down on among the films either side of it in the original Indiana Jones trilogy. It has its issues for sure but John Williams’ work on the soundtrack is superb (well, no-one would expect anything different, right?). I love the fusion of […]
Read more "Monday Music 22 – 2017"I’m a bit late to this party and I’m betting that everyone is bored to tears by now of hearing endless theories about what it all means, if indeed it means anything. I’m not going to focus on theories (maybe one or two later on) but more about feelings. There are lots of spoilers here […]
Read more "Twin Peaks: The Return – Loved it!"It’s September and the holidays are over. So, this week I’ve decided to make my Monday Music post a little piece of inspiration for all us teachers going back to school today. This is from the film that first made me consider getting into teaching in the first place. It’s also a film that makes […]
Read more "Monday Music 21 – 2017"I’ve been looking forward to ‘T’. It was set from the beginning. I found the picture below on Twitter a couple of days ago and it was as good an intro as I could hope for. There are a lot of NQTs popping up on the various Facebook groups for teachers and this is partly […]
Read more "T is for Teaching"Here’s a link to my latest conversation on the Obnoxious and Anonymous channel, this time coming on the slightly different setting of Vidme. Had a good chat about all things Twin Peaks, Inland Empire and other stuff. https://vid.me/OjS1J Cheers, Richard
Read more "More Twin Peaks Talk"Wow. That took me a good couple of hours but I’ve been through the entire manuscript and looked at all the variations on “saw”. There were over 300: one per page at least. It really made me think as I was doing it that its a great idea to do this. I can understand now […]
Read more "2nd draft update – see, saw, seeing, seen"I’m a bit obsessed at the minute. Game of Thrones and Twin Peaks are both coming to an end pretty soon and I’ll have to move on. However, in the meantime, I can’t seem to completely switch off from either. In fact, I can’t even seem to read a book to my two-year-old boy at […]
Read more "I see them everywhere!"I was in the car with my wife on Friday and, to make the trip go a little quicker, I opted for one of my favourite 80s soundtrack albums. Footloose. A few songs in, we came to this week’s tune. It’s one that I had completely, inexplicably forgotten was on there. When I heard it, […]
Read more "Monday Music 20 – 2017"Today, I’m starting the process of writing the second draft of The Crossing, thanks to the great advice I received from Katie Clark and author, Leslie E Heath. So far, I’ve taken out a load of instances of passive voice which slows the pace of the story. Additionally, I have found 128 uses of the […]
Read more "Time for 2nd draft"Books, games, music, and life — filtered through the mind of a writer, drummer, and philosopher who thinks too deeply about all of it. If it moves something in your chest, I'm interested.
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