#forget never

Sunday Musings for 18th January 2014 – #MuseItUp #DaffodilAndTheThinPlace

This week, Chris asked us

How does the world news around you impact your writing?

Do you end up writing something to escape it or to incorporate it or to try and explain it or to solve it?

Here’s my reply: The only time that I’m aware of world news having had an impact on my writing was when I wrote a script for a WWI dramatisation and then obviously, I used old news reports and first hand…

Reg gets Arty in the Lab – #MuseItUp #DaffodilAndTheThinPlace

Selfie of Reg and the arty stuff

Reg’s Dlog:

What would you expect to find in a laboratory? Test tubes, beakers, bunsen burners? Well, not in the one I was in yesterday. It was full of brilliant arty stuff.

The Laboratory is in Wat Tyler Country Park, Pitsea, Essex and is the art studio of Lisa Smith who is the project manager of the Forget Never, Oublier Jamais, Vergessen Niemals Project. And…

Sons of Three Countries Remembered – Albert Kiekert

Albert Kiekert

Natalie Taylor-Scotcher as the narrator talking to Albert Kiekert, played by James Le Lacheur

The final service man who was featured in the  ‘Sons of Three Countries Remembered’ was Albert Kiekert, from Heiligenhaus, Germany.

Here are some details about him from the script:

Albert Kiekert joined his brother’s regiment, the First Lothringischen Feldartillerie-Regiment Number…

Sons of Three Countries Remembered – Louis Vallin

Louis Vallin

Christopher Walthorne plays the part of Louis Vallin. Here he tells the narrator, played by Natalie Taylor-Scotcher that he will soon be joining the French Air Force

Yesterday, I posted the story of George Burnett, the young British soldier from Wickford, Essex, who died in the First World War. Shortly after George went missing in October 1914, Louis Vallin, from Meaux, France,…

Sons of Three Countries Remembered – George Burnett

George Burnett

Adam Elliott playing the part of George Burnett on the eve of rejoining his regiment. Natalie Taylor-Scotcher plays the narrator

While I was researching the First World War and specifically, the three service men – one from Wickford, Essex, England, one from Meaux, France and one from Heiligenhaus, Germany, I wondered how it must have felt at the beginning of the war when no one…