Author: Paul Ariss
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Yesterday at the Liverpool Philharmonic Hall in Hope Street, Liverpool, between the city’s two iconic Anglican and Catholic cathedrals, I attended the Music Career Industry Festival. The festival, being organised and run by Sentric Music, a music publisher founded and based in Liverpool but also with an office in London, is mainly for people planning…
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For those of you about to read this blog beware, I may not be who I say I am. I may not even exist. I only mention this because over the last couple of months, authorities in my country have yet to be convinced that my identity is genuine. In this world of identity theft…
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For about 15 years a painting by Alice Dalton Brown hung on the wall in front of me in the small bedroom where I did all my writing. The painting is called Tomorrow Morning. It is a large print, 24” wide and 84” long, and with a nice frame that was of course slightly larger…
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Having just moved into my new home just over seven weeks ago and still tripping over boxes – though a lot less than there were – and putting up curtain rails and applying paint (badly) onto walls and making room for new and old furniture, the space available for Christmas decorations is at present somewhat…
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On the 31st October, I returned to my hometown after spending the previous four months – eighteen weeks in all, or 126 days if you prefer – living from my sisters spare room in northern Cumbria. This was not planned, or at least not for that long. I expected to be away for a couple…
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As this weird period of my year continues in my sisters spare room, waiting as the legal palaver grinds on and on for my new property 130 miles away, I try and find new ways daily to fill the hours. As I have been here in Cumbria since June 27th (94 days if we’re counting)…
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Jane Austen was born 250 years ago in Hampshire and is regarded by many as England’s greatest female author. Writing in an age when women were not considered to have credibility in the arts she had to fight a society seeped in misogamy and had written both Sense and Sensibility and Pride and Prejudice by…
SONGS AND SCRIPTS AND DUNKING BISCUITS 