This story is about my experience of working in Zambia during the late 1970’s and early 1980’s. It is a factual account of what happened to the lives of ordinary people, during a crisis when its major export commodity, copper, declined in price. During these years, the country was a so-called ‘front-line state’ in the [...]
Posts Tagged ‘pudsey’
A Zambian Story – by Roger Barton
Posted in new writing, tagged memories, pudsey, war on May 5, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Giddy Aunts
Posted in new writing, tagged childhood, family, molly, pudsey on April 15, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
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 [...]
Independence Day
Posted in NEWS, Workshops, tagged childhood, family, memories, pudsey, war on March 3, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
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 [...]





