tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7291823984059320518.post8522938979737239736..comments2024-03-26T17:48:56.627+00:00Comments on 'Do You Write Under Your Own Name?': Festival TimeMartin Edwardshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16082485795280777670noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7291823984059320518.post-91627324386698380352009-07-05T23:22:01.974+01:002009-07-05T23:22:01.974+01:00Hi Kerrie -I really ought to fictionalise the Fest...Hi Kerrie -I really ought to fictionalise the Festival one day!Martin Edwardshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16082485795280777670noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7291823984059320518.post-4036231407014583682009-07-05T23:21:31.785+01:002009-07-05T23:21:31.785+01:00Hi Paul, many thanks for these thoughts - and I...Hi Paul, many thanks for these thoughts - and I'm glad you enjoyed the Festival.Martin Edwardshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16082485795280777670noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7291823984059320518.post-91337931384412309282009-07-05T08:34:19.640+01:002009-07-05T08:34:19.640+01:00Wish I could have spent more time at the festival ...Wish I could have spent more time at the festival but loved the bit I saw last Saturday despite the unexpected rain that left the bunting rather bedraggled and the air smelling faintly of leaf mould.<br /><br />I’m not much into abstract art, to be honest, but there was enough of the stuff I do like in the local artists’ exhibition at the Village Hall to convince me that Lymm has a wealth of talent. I was particularly taken with ‘Le Petit Café, Troyes’ by Will Swindlehurst and ‘Topiary at Tatton Park’ by Jacqueline Marshall. I liked Jan Grimes’ sketchbook nudes too! <br /><br />I enjoyed some of the poetry and prose in the Lymm Lines competition file, particularly ‘Forgotten’ by Penny Kimber, which had been awarded the 2nd prize for poetry. I thought the acrid power of the piece might have inspired a crime writer to produce a tale of jealousy and revenge of the whydunnit variety.<br /><br />Some beautiful stuff in the calligraphy exhibition in the adjoining room but pity the calligrapher who discovers a spelling mistake halfway through!<br /><br />Had a quick look at Lymm Dam before a fresh shower drove me back and thought that massive sandstone outcrop deeply riven with Nye channels might have provided a nice setting for the grisly climax to that tale of revenge, with anglers beneath umbrellas innocently fishing the green waters just a hundred yards away…<br /><br />Not that I have a macabre mind or anything, you understand!Paul Beechnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7291823984059320518.post-85996980653291493632009-07-01T12:39:43.176+01:002009-07-01T12:39:43.176+01:00Just as well that it's not Midsomer, else ther...Just as well that it's not Midsomer, else there would be at least one murder!Kerriehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13581470363339796352noreply@blogger.com