A guest post today from June Angela. It’s been a while since we had a post from the Tyke in Exile – another in the series on seeing the extraordinary in the ordinary: When Madonna fell off the stage at The Brit Awards Wednesday gone, the whole nation gasped in disbelief and the real beauty … Read more
I never really thought about this until this last weekend when I was lucky enough to get the latest album by Eberhard Weber. It’s the second album which he has produced solo since he had a stroke a few years ago. Before that he had a long career as a jazz musician playing double bass … Read more
I have found a way to get free coaching advice and support from some of the famous people, key influences in my life. I can choose anyone I want to give me that support – and they don’t have to still be alive. If they are alive, I can guarantee that I will get help … Read more
Over the past few months I have been experimenting with music and sounds to see if I can make backing tracks over which I can then record a poem. The poems I am using are from a sequence I am still writing about a character called Blue. I have been writing about this character for … Read more
The picture with this post is a fragment of a huge canvas produced by the team I work with from a project we did with the Manchester Camerata earlier this year. If you key in “Creative Learning” into the search box on this blog you will find a series of posts written over the last 18 months … Read more
It’s been a while since I posted a quick summary of the music I am listening to. If you have been reading my blog for a few years (yes, you at the back with your eyes closed!) you will know that I am mad about music and have pretty diverse tastes. So, for what it’s … Read more
One of the key principles of NLP (Neuro Linguistic Programming) is that we can learn a lot by looking at how other people who are highly effective function and extracting from that study ideas which we can implement ourselves. This is a really helpful practise. But it can be difficult to do when we are … Read more
Thanks to the wonders of the internet, the post I published yesterday about Carl Henry and Half Man Half Biscuit was seen by Carl and he dropped me an email today. Here’s what he said: “Huge surprise to see this appearing as one of your blogs, very many thanks for your compliments I feel very … Read more
Carl Henry has worked for a few years now in Research & Development in the NHS in England. I first met him a few years ago at a conference in Manchester. We chatted over the morning coffee and the conversation turned to what we had been doing the previous weekend. It was a very snowy … Read more
I haven’t written about music for a while, so thought that should be the theme today. Especially after a weekend of Glastonbury wall-to-wall on the TV, radio etc. There was an interesting piece in the weekend Independent by David Hepworth about Glastonbury. He describes it as “merely a version of historical re-enactment”. That’s probably why … Read more