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What if MPs were all sent to Job Centres for a day

I’ve recently heard about sanctions, when someone has been kicked off benefits after 3 months, despite their efforts to find work and their circumstances. There have been reports in the broadsheet and tabloid press about people who have starved to death in their homes due to having nothing to live on. Here’s a fictional sceneContinueContinue reading “What if MPs were all sent to Job Centres for a day”

Chemtrails – More Corporate Deflection onto Climate Science?

“How convenient for corporate greed and the murky side of capitalism that the very force acting against it, climate research, is now being villified by the public’

Oil Pastels up in Falmouth Kernowine

Oil pastels I started doing on midsummer’s day 2020, when I couldn’t find my handbag to go to a barbeque, are on view at Kernowine in Falmouth. Come for an open evening from 6pm on Wednesday 1st November 2023. Each A4 picture is £150 with frame. If you’d like to buy an oil pastel, they’reContinueContinue reading “Oil Pastels up in Falmouth Kernowine”

Resources for Coming To Visit Me in Falmouth

With everything going on, thought I would share some resources for coming to visit. Here are the resources, at your fingertips, for where to stay, how to book, how to get here and who else is coming from the same direction to team up and have a memorable journey down to Cornwall and back. TravelContinueContinue reading “Resources for Coming To Visit Me in Falmouth”

If the UK Government Put Public Interests First We Might Have Averted Disaster

Boris Johnson’s Government’s focus seems to have been on big corporation interests from the start of the COVID-19 outbreak, thinking they could “flatten the curve” after contact tracing and quarantining had been dropped. After John Newton predicted a million cases, the government abandoned its contact tracing in favour of a 3-4 month national lockdown. CouldContinueContinue reading “If the UK Government Put Public Interests First We Might Have Averted Disaster”

Social Enterprise Ideas – customer feedback

Here are some of my ideas – please help yourself if you like one – as writing them down is a good way to formulate them. No. 1 Speak4Yourself.com – it has come of age with today’s IT Between 1998 and 2003, I worked for a publishing company, which published business to business magazines andContinueContinue reading “Social Enterprise Ideas – customer feedback”

Spotify Playlist for Sophie’s Spring Board Show

Thank you again to the Falmouth Packet

Here’s my latest comedy night (tonite, 16th October, Oscar Wilde’s birthday) is in our fabulous local organ the Falmouth Packet.

New website for the West Country

Here’s the post for my last comedy night. it’s too late at night to write anymore.

Secrets to writing press releases that get published

Press releases, or so-called ‘below the line advertising’, are a very effective way to promote your artistic activities. After all, people in your local area or industry would want to know what is going on. Remember that while you are writing. Format The simple format for a good press release is the same one youContinueContinue reading “Secrets to writing press releases that get published”