A month's gap since that last post - let's just say the year didn't perhaps get off to the start it might have! But two thirds of January are now behind us, the evenings are gradually beginning to get just a little bit lighter and spring may not be so far off. In fact I saw this daffodil out on New Year's Day and over the weekend I found quite spectacular banks of snowdrops in the hedgerows when I was driving through rural Shropshire. The worst of the winter weather may well yet be to come but signs of better days always cheer me no end.
The other thing that has cheered me no end in the last couple of days has been planning a couple of new projects and arranging two visits to Ty Newydd, the National Writing Centre of Wales, over the summer. Ty Newydd has to be one of my favourite places on earth; I never fail to be inspired by my visits there. For various reasons I've not been able to go for a few years now, so I shall be delighted to get there again. One of the weeks I'll be spending there is dedicated to "Writing Wales" - fortunately with bilingual facilitators as my learner Welsh may not stretch to accommodating anything else quite yet!
In the meantime I'm well into the scripts for a series of programmes for Upbeat Radio which may appear at some stage in book form too. I'm looking forward to restarting "The Writers Room" broadcasts before long as well; the twelve month series which ran 2018 - 2019 was very well received and gave a platform to a variety of local writers. I enjoy the challenge of live radio work - though being expected to master the technology when working with community radio stations I sometimes find intimidating! No major calamities so far but quite a bit of flying by the seat of my pants ...
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