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  1. Living in Brighton? Want to write? Free on Monday mornings? (fed up with questions) check out my class at www.bucfp.org just £2 per class
  2. Going to be part of Crag Cave's 1st ever literary event Friday night. If you're in County Kerry do come. 7.30 pm
  3. I suppose getting swine flu was a sloppy kind of good luck - very mild bout - I know everyone hasn't been so fortunate. Keep lucky.
  4. Caught swine flu earlier in the month. Tamiflu within an hour. Seclusion for 7 days. Only activity was writing for The Irish Post.
  5. check out http://www.timesonline.co.uk/ for the best optical illusion photographs - all of them taken in the Salt Plains of Boliva...
  6. Check out free poetry advice at www.twitter.com/pighog. It comes from a Brighton based poet that I know by reputation. Worth following
  7. They didn't have any followers...they were following many...they were called Autumn....I'm I missing something here?
  8. just checked by someone who said they were following but their account has been closed because of "strange activity"...what did they do?
  9. wet wet wet in Brighton but tomorrow the sun is going to shine...
  10. Or there is always the library....
  11. Just found this cheap book site. Copies of my novel for $10.29. http://bit.ly/12uUAZ
  12. Calling Ireland. Do you know of a bookshop or community centre that would like a free workshop/talk by two great women writers...autumn-ish
  13. My knees are getting very old. The rest of me is fine but i think they must have been born first - by a decade
  14. Just wondering if anyone had ideas for September book tour of Ireland. Me novelist & friend performance poet both 2nd generation Irish
  15. Also climbed up the south downs - which is not a thing i do often - to see Anish Kapoor's C Curve (think arty hall of mirrors)
  16. Last week of Brighton festival....just loving it. Saw two great Irish plays: one in a tiny pub one in the Theatre Royal
  17. Planning 30 second speech for student awards. Nominated a remarkable woman who is a witty writer & great team player...and very ill.
  18. Great night. Irish storytelling & music at Amnesty International bookshop in Brighton. The craic was mighty!
  19. Very excited that my short radio script of GOOD CONFESSION will be heard 4 times Brighton Festival at 'Radio City Theatre' The Hive, Hove
  20. 1st task I will set students is to write the opening of a novel that no one would want to read. Most fail. G8 to be able to say no, too good