The Troubadour is a new building having opened in 2019. It is very functional and not designed to be easy on the eye. The auditorium is on one level and the seating is designed to be flexible so as to accommodate various types of productions, what it does not accommodate very well is people with impaired mobility
The Last of the Mohicans
James Fenimore Cooper’s most famous work, The Last of the Mohicans’, has often been described as unreadable by modern audiences. It is fair to state that Cooper wrote with an overly descriptive style, but then it is not very different to that of other authors of his time. The book was first published in 1826 … Continue reading The Last of the Mohicans
New Road, New Life
Today is my last day actually working for my employer after more than 30 years. I do not officially finish until the end of the month but I will be on leave until then. It is quite a moment. I will be driving offsite without any kind of fanfare, which is what I wanted. The … Continue reading New Road, New Life
Happy Writing – The Half-Baked Notion
Some of my first notions have been powerful, vivid, and exciting. I have rushed to get to my keyboard and then started typing it all down and found myself running out of steam. It turned out to be a half-baked notion
Fear as a tool of government
It is a curious turn of events that we now find ourselves, some 40 years after the film was released, living like replicants.
Returning to Italy
There are still plenty of other places that I want to visit in the world, but Italy will always be the one country that I keep returning to. It seems quite fitting then that it was the last one that I got to enjoy before the pandemic and it will be the first after it.
Pomerania 10
Pomerania is going to be a whimsical tale of philosophical fantasy. Although I will examine themes that touch on death, loneliness, bereavement, and exclusion, it will not weigh heavy on the reader
The Sorrow Song Trilogy in One Volume
At what now appears to be regular intervals I go back to my books and read them with a view to improving them. It is self-editing really. I always seem to find something that I am not particularly happy about, be that a typographical error, an example of poor grammar, or the notion that I could have phrased a sentence better. As a writer I believe in continuous improvement for myself and my work
Happy Writing: Having a Study
The notion of having somewhere to go to write, draw, and make things is very appealing, not least because it means that I do not have to put everything away before I have completed a project, which is what I have to do if I use any other room in the house.
Pomerania 9
The wonderful world of weird! This book just keeps giving me surprises. I am not sure if I will be able to use all of them, but I know that having more to work with is always better than less. William Blake claimed that the road of excess leads to the palace of wisdom, I … Continue reading Pomerania 9
Peter C Whitaker 