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Category Archives: non-fiction
Kristallnacht and Remembrance
Thanks to Guy Verhofstadt for posting about Kristallnacht yesterday. Known, too, as the Night of Broken Glass and the November Pogrom(s), it was a pogrom against Jews and civilians throughout Nazi Germany on 9–10 November 1938, carried out by the Sturmabteilung, the Nazi party’s … Continue reading
Posted in European Union, Fiction, Greek Islands, new writing, non-fiction, Refugees, Writers, Writing
Tagged Aegean Solidarity UK, Angela Merkel, British immigration policy, child refugees, Dodecanese Islands, Guy Verhofstadt, Immigration, Krystallnacht, Refugee Support Devon, Remembrance Day, Symi
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Start ’em young
In 1990s in Berkshire, I ran a young people’s performance group, Fable Productions. Students devised, wrote, and performed their own plays. I remember them all. Occasionally, I wrote plays based on students’ ideas. Wonder do they remember me? And … Continue reading
Posted in Contemporary Women's Fiction, Fiction, Greek Islands, Humour, Leros, Life on the edge, new writing, non-fiction, Personal, Teaching, Theatre, Writers, Writing
Tagged Backstage, contemporary Fiction, Fiction, Greece, Greek Islands, holiday reading, Jigsaw Island, Lynne McVernon, new novel, new writing, Symi, Terrible with Raisins, Women writers, women's fiction, Writing
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From Leros Solidarity Network, 20 August 2019
Poem translated from Google – bear with it – the essence shines though… They collected, I read, from the sea of Italy. They used to wear them, men, women, children. Desperate people, wearing their old shoes, flip flops, slippers were … Continue reading
Posted in catasrophe, Desperation, Greek Islands, Life on the edge, non-fiction, Poetry, Refugees
Tagged Greek Islands, Leros, Refugees
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Response to rejection of parking fine appeal
Mr Martyn Baker Parking Manager, West Berkshire District Council Parking Services, Council Offices, Market Street, Newbury, Berkshire RG14 5LD 24 July 2019 Dear Mr Baker Re: Traffic Management Act 2004 Penalty Charge Notice № : KK01325775 Date of Contravention : … Continue reading
Posted in Desperation, Humour, Life on the edge, non-fiction, Writing
Tagged Berkshire, bureaucracy, disability, jobsworth, karma
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Teacher gets it right
Or ‘Teacher puts it right’. An unpleasant comment from an – older than me ha ha! – ex-fellow student, a postponed NHS appointment and a worrying email from an actor’s agent all conspired to dampen my spirits today. Then a … Continue reading
Posted in Education, Humour, non-fiction, Personal, Teaching, Theatre
Tagged Backstage, Guildford, Humour, J B Priestley, Yvonne Arnaud Theatre
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Lightening the refugee trail
This week I met a young man who had escaped the war in Syria and endured terrifying experiences in order to have a better life. Siblings died, his family was torn apart, access between father and children was denied by … Continue reading
Posted in Desperation, Greek Islands, Life on the edge, non-fiction, Personal, Writers, Writing
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Lynne McVernon 