There’s
nothing I enjoy more than encouraging writers and so I have been delighted to
be part of a brace of writing competition commitments. The prize giving of the
Chiltern Open Air Museum writing competition was held last Saturday and how
thrilled I was to see two of my ex learners scooping prizes. Now it’s the final
few days before the closing date of the Berkhamsted Writing Competition and I
am already anticipating plenty of stimulating reading over the next few weeks.
Meanwhile, I
have visited the Ashmolean in Oxford for the first time this year, providing a
review of Cézanane and the Modern exhibition for that most iconic magazine, The
Lady.
Not that I
have deserted my other regulars. Buckinghamshire Life this month carries my
feature about all things equine while Hampshire Life features yet another
artist profile, this time the charmingly talented and ultra humorous Jonny
Hannah.
Of course,
interview opportunities may pop up at the most unexpected times and writers
must always be prepared. When a friend took me to see Gervase Phinn, for
instance, at a pre Christmas show in Maidenhead, I found the opportunity for a
quick chat afterwards. He was most accepting of my offer to interview
him which has since appeared in Prayer for Today.
Numerous
other features are lined up for 2014, more of which at a later date. But for
those of you who yearn to hear the latest musings of Lady Margaret
Gosworthy-Pringle, please log onto Hampshire Life’s website where she regularly
enlightens the nation as to her standards, and expectations. If only the rest
of us could keep up with her . . .
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