My Mother And The Country

Khalid has written this piece about his Mother and her extraordinairy life. This work was shown to the writers group in Pudsey who all agreed that perfect English is not necessarily the main ingredient in telling a powerful story which has been written in another language. Too much attention to grammar and spelling and the [...]

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Giddy Aunts

Molly’s Auntie Rhoda and Uncle Jim
We’ve been focussing on identity in the Relay workshops and looking at our own family photos as a way of tapping into the richness of our personal experiences. I’ve mentioned Molly’s piece of writing before, about her sophisticated Auntie Rhoda who owned the much longed for ornament of a naked [...]

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Ray’s Father

This is a photo of my father standing at the wheel of the Cutty Sark in Greenwich. It was taken in 1984, when I was living in London. It’s a bitterly cold, clear day in January and I am struck, yet again, by how much more comfortable my dad looks when he’s outside. In [...]

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Persian New Year

New Years celebrations are an important event for many cultures and during last Wednesday’s workshop we were talking about the Persian New Year, Nowruz, which takes place on the 21st March to coincide with the first day of spring. A huge spring clean gets underway in the days leading up to the New Year [...]

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Independence Day

Pudsey and Calverley writers groups are a lively and independent lot who know just how they want things to be done. This was apparent on Friday when the group were asked to start work on a writing exercise during the workshop based around the photographs and objects they had brought in with them.
We soon [...]

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