SMALL AUDIENCE, GREAT EVENING

Yesterday evening, Saturday, was the first 'spoken word' night at a new cafe/culture centre in Hawkshead (The Lake District) called THE KITTCHEN. It's established itself as a 'cat' cafe with about four moggies wandering about and lots of cat KITsch decoration. Many of the usual 'spoken word' suspects I know were there to ply their wares. The evening comprised songs, stories and poems plus weird stuff! Many of the visitors milling round the honeypot tourist village hadn't cottoned on to all the wondrous culture happening upstairs at the KITTCHEN, preferring to gather round the pubs. But those that did venture in seemed to enjoy our offerings.

I read out four pieces, not yet published. Two were concerned with how the mind wanders before daylight kicks in.

The first was called EARLY HOURS and portrays thoughts at the hours of two and three in the morning. A second piece, entitled FIRST LIGHT, describes musings which go through my mind when I wake up early. Thirdly was an experimental piece. It's a conversation between two female book characters highlighting all the faux pas in novel writing. Thirdly was a humorous piece on what it's like to be in A&E on January 1st . Yes. It can be humorous . . truly.

Get in touch if you want to know more. Best wishes. Julie.