Tag: Brockley

  • More From Cut a Long Story

    More stories up on Cut a Long Story… Starkridge: Don’t Mess with Mountains… Glory, or Hope: two goddesses meet on a beach… Prairie Rain: a flash fiction set on a porch near the town of Normal, Illinois Déjà Vû: A radical retelling – Sleeping Beauty and Snow White seen through the prism of The Stepford…

  • Songs of the Sea

    Well, for a writing blog there’s a heck of a lot about singing on here. This post is no exception. Vocal Chords, my regular choir, are splashing out in Forest Hill on Saturday July 19th (The only day that week that I’m not rehearsing or performing in Count Ory at Blackheath. 3pm St Saviour’s Church,…

  • Gearing up for Yule

    I don’t care how many shopping days, what matters now is, how many singing days are there til the Solstice? And how many reading days? My evenings are  split roughly equally between singing and promoting the books between now and Christmas. Rehearsals every Monday for Vivaldi Gloria at Blackheath Halls Christmas Concert Tuesdays at the…

  • music is taking over my life

    music is taking over my life

    Haven’t written anything here (or anywhere else much) for a while, and I blame that pesky singing lark. It has taken over. We are rehearsing Ramirez’s Navidad Nuestra, carols and RTR stuff for Blackheath Halls on the 16th December, end of term concert for Raise the Roof at the Horniman Museum TODAY!!!! 2.30pm, and a…

  • A Night Off from the Opera

    A Night Off from the Opera

    It feels really weird not being in Onegin-land for a day.  I actually go to work, and talk about something other than music, very strange!And despite not getting to bed until 1am and being awake again at 5, I decide I do have the energy for writing group.I have a completed story about Cretan bull…