Tales from the Squid and Teapot. The Annual Hopeless Rock Race. However austere and impoverished their environment, human beings will always find reasons and means for celebration. It is an island so basic in its comforts and amenities that the occasional diversion likely to ignite the smallest spark of joy is often embraced with surprising enthusiasm. Forty years on and the race was still a much-a.

We are Open for Submissions for our. The deadline for which is. Friday 25 September at 23. Ten stories will be selected from those submitted to be read by their authors at a packed and appreciative. It will be our tenth event.

Rainforests are being cut down to grow palm oil trees and not only tigers and sunbears are getting scarce, so are orangutans. Saving tigers also means saving sun bears because they live in the same habitat. In Sumatra tigers are i.

So much love poetry, so little time. And so few celebrating when the hands which hold are both wrinkled, and have age spots, and not tattoos. Is the song I was listening to when I started this blog. Think of a Beatles Tune.

When all you can do is create! The Love of Wool. It had taken me two years from the point where I bought myself a spinning wheel to actually having the fleeces to spin! Initially she gave me one as a gift and I taught myself, with the help of Youtube, how to wash, card and spin it. Before using the wheel I practised on a drop spindle until I knew how to feel the wool and get it right without dropping it every five seconds.

Stroud Out Loud 30 October 2016. The Maid, the Maggot and the Saints. And Agent Krisa will be coming to the Museum in the Park.