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Thursday Connectors: Value Your Voices

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Welcome to another great edition of Thursday Connectors with me your host, Farzana Hakim. This week, we’re going 'Down Under' to Queensland and we’ll be finding out about a Barking and Dagenham programme to get youngsters writing. But first, let’s talk a little about what’s happening across the globe. This past ...

Thoughtful Tuesdays: Values

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by Eithne Cullen In Oscar Wilde’s play Lady Windemere’s Fan, Lord Darlington says that a cynic is ‘A man who knows the price of everything and the value of nothing.’ Like many of the things Wilde wrote, this has slipped into common usage as a saying and could equally apply to a ...

Monday Memoirs: Value vs Values

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Introduced by Holly King In the months that we’ve been in lockdown, our lives have been thrown up in the air and our regimes scattered about on the floor, like the good old game of 52-Card Pickup (beware if your grandad asks you to play a game of cards that you’ve ...

Friday Feature: Creating The Basilwade Chronicles

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by Dawn Knox Credit: Lucy Lawson Photography When I started writing the first chapter of The Basilwade Chronicles, I had no idea it would eventually be included in a book. It was simply a short story written to present at one of the Basildon Writers’ Group meetings, where once a month, ...

Thursday Connectors: Africa Away

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by Farzana Hakim Hi, all. It’s Farzana here, for our latest edition of Thursday Connectors. As promised, this week I’m taking you on a trip across one of the most culturally rich and diverse continents in the world: Africa. We’ll be connecting to writer friends from Morocco, Kenya and Tunisia, all ...

Thoughtful Tuesdays: Bringing The Outside In

Thoughtful Tuesday
by Eithne Cullen The theme for this week’s magazine is Bringing The Outside In. We thought this was a good topic as, in these lockdown days, we’re all trying to bring the world into our homes in a number of ways. I’ve been settling down to watch streamed theatre and loving it. ...

Monday Memoirs: Bringing The Outside In

Monday Moments
Introduced by Holly King Can you believe it’s Monday again? Does it feel like a Monday any more? How much has your routine changed? How much time have you saved by not commuting or putting on your work suit? Do you still listen to the radio, even though you don’t need ...

Friday Feature: Dagenham Is The Protagonist

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by Elaine Spires While I was growing up, I was blissfully unaware I was doing so in a place that so much of the country would have looked down its nose at and considered ‘deprived’.  I didn’t know it was sneeringly referred to as Corned Beef City by those who thought ...