Writers' Holidays In The UK

Writers" Summer School takes place here in August most years, at the Hayes Conference Centre, Swanwick. the 2020 event was cancelled, but the 2021 took place as you can see from my later post.

 I am an author and follow a lot of other authors and would be authors on Facebook. The two groups where I have friends I have personally met are in the UK. For years I belonged to Harrow Writers' Circle. 

Through them I met others who introduced me to The Writers Holiday which meets in Wales. Nowadays in February when Covid-19 permits.

You drive across the Severn Bridge.

 

Severn Bridge. Photo by Angela Lansbury.

The Writers' Summer School meets in the north of England in August, when the Covid-10 regulations permit.  This year, 2021, we had reduced numbers, about 200 delegates instead of 400. We were all delighted that the event still took place.

Update 

Writers' Summer School took place in summer 2021.

Useful Websites

August in Derbyshire, England

https://www.swanwickwritersschool.org.uk/

Online, matches you with a novel writing buddy

https://nanowrimo.org/

Poetry Practise With Author Angela, Teacher, Alison and Writers Weekend Organizers, The Hobbs Family

Angela Lansbury, author, performer of comic poetry, with Alison Chisholm poetry teacher and author, at Fishguard Bay Hotel in Wales. Photo by Angela Lansbury. Copyright.

Angela Lansbury, author and poet, reading three of  her short poems from her laptop. you can see I am looking down when I should be looking at the audience.

Angela Lansbury, author and poet, reciting from memory and improvising a rap poem about being 'Busy as a bee', in Fishguard Bay Hotel, during the annual Writers' Holiday.

Angela Lansbury, author and poetry performer, with another poetry performer, Scottish Fiona. Photo by Angela Lansbury. Copyright.

Fishguard Bay Hotel, Writers' Holiday, family of organizers and a regular speaker. From Left, Gerry Hobbs, his son David who drives us to the station, daughter-in-law and supporter, Speaker and course leader and author Stephen Wade, Gerry's wife Anne Hobbs, who gives the opening night welcome speech. She says: 'They only rule is there are no rules. Actually, there is one rule: Enjoy yourself.'

The next Writers' Holiday is February 2021.

Useful Website

writersholiday.net

About the Author

Angela Lansbury, travel writer and photographer, author, speaker, teacher of English and other languages.
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Dylan Thomas's Under Milk Wood - New Walking Tour Of The Film Locations

I returned to Wales for the annual Writers' and Artists' Holiday at the Fishguard Bay Hotel and I was delighted to see a new walking tour taking in the locations of the film of Under Milk Wood.

The whole tour takes about an hour and a half. If you are like me and have to go into shops, buy books, souvenirs and postcards, and look around, as well as taking photos, it would take much longer. That is a good thing if you are not in a hurry. You could fill a long weekend or a week.

If you are in a hurry, and don't want to bother with the places which are just facades, the best place for a one stop outing is to the pub down in Fishguard harbour.

Liz Taylor and Richard Burton who starred in the film stayed in what was and still is the largest hotel, the landmark Fishguard Bay Hotel, on the cliff above the station and departure point for the ferry from Wales to Ireland.

Go up to the hotel for a fine view over the bay to the opposite side. You can buy drinks in the bar. The hotel is open to non-residents. They also serve excellent food. (See next post.)

Author
Angela Lansbury

Writing and Painting Courses in England and Wales, February and August - Plus Edinburgh Festival or Ireland

Writing Courses in England and Wales


In February 2019 you can attend the Writers Holiday in Fishguard, Wales.

The train goes to Fishguard and Goodwick from Paddington in London.  Fishguard and Goodwick station is just below the Fishguard Bay hotel which is on the clifftop.
The train runs here to the edge of WALES transporting tourists to the terminal where you catch the ferry across to Ireland.

Painting
Courses cover aspects of writing, and painting - so you can illustrate a book or paint a romantic or spooky scene to inspire a story. Susan Alison tells you all about perspective and colour. She is very thorough and helpful. Materials, watercolour paints, paper and brushes and so on, are provided.

Later in the year you could attend Swanwick, the Writers' Summer School in Swanwick village in Derbyshire. 

The programme is published on line.
Who will be there? The usual favourites including Della Galton, on writing a novel, a change from her usual area of expertise, short stories. Alison Chisholm as usual will be encouraging novice and seasoned poets, with her soothing voice.

Why book now. Why early? Why not wait? Because by booking now you are sure of getting a place if they are fully booked. Because you can choose the cheaper accommodation before it sells out. Because rooms are allocated when you book so you have a greater chance of getting the building you prefer, the level - ground or above, and the price your prefer - the cheaper rooms, or the dearer ones in prime position.

One year we went on from the Writers' Summer School to the Edinburgh Festival in Scotland which is also in August.. We drove north from Swanwick across the border and took in several sights including a puppet theatre and the cave where Bruce reputedly saw the spider. (Several caves claim to be the one. I puzzled over this for several hours on the journey, as we passed motels. Eventually, after comparing the dates of the claims, I realised Bruce hopped around caves, over the years, between battles, like a modern man on the run would hop from motel to motel, evading pursuers.)

So go north from London to Scotland, by train or coach or car, or drive on from Swanwick. That's August. At a big conference centre. Accommodation prices vary at the Hayes Conference Centre which has several buildings.

A smaller, shorter, cheaper event is the long weekend at Wales in February at Fishguard Bay Hotel with views over the bay. 
If you travel to Wales by train you will see Welsh signs on the train and at the Welsh stations. You can learn Welsh through the free online website, Duolingo.

Writers' Holiday
Friday 15 to Sunday 17 Feb. Stay a day longer before or after and make sure you see the tapestry of the invasion of Fishguard by the French - and their capture by a group of women - displayed next to the library in the town hall.

Plenty to think about, talk about and write about, at your destination and surroundings at either of these holidays or both. Visitors travel from far away: England, Scotland, Wales, Ireland, Singapore, Switzerland, the USA. So do the speakers and course leaders.

Swanwick 10-16 August 2019.

I tried to find my previous posts in this blog and could not - but a google search brought them up!

Useful Websites
http://travelwithangelalansbury.blogspot.com/2017/07/fishguard-bay-and-films-in-wales.html
writersholiday.net
https://www.swanwickwritersschool.org.uk/full-programme.html
duolingo.com

Author, Angela Lansbury, travel writer and photographer, author and speaker. See my previous posts on both these holidays, and photos. 

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Record Your Full Name and Date On Awards

An Undated Ribbon NEEDS DATE AND A NAME
I just won another ribbon at Toastmasters. I immediately wrote the date and place on the back. I noted in my diary that I had won a ribbon. I had noted in my diary the club which I was visiting. Add the country, if you travel to other countries. On the day you know where you are. Six months or years later you will be looking at awards and wondering, where was that from?

TEACHER'S CREDENTIALS

TRAVEL WRITERS

 I went to a travel writing course at Writers' Holiday in Fishguard, Wales. The course leader proudly said that she had published more than 100 travel articles. I wondered how many I had had published. At about ten a year for ten years that would be at least a hundred, probably more. But I had no record. Her statistics gave her confidence and enabled her to inspire confidence in the audience.

SPEAKER INTRODUCTIONS

What roles have you done as a speaker?

As an evaluator or judge?

We are often told at Toastmasters International speakers' meetings that the audience won't warm to you if you start by boasting of your achievements. Also they may feel discouraged. How can they compete?

You have to show them that you started from zero and ended up a hero. (Over what time span?)

At that point I had no record.

PUPILS AND PARENTS SEEK CREDENTIALS
 On the other hand, parents looking for a teacher for their children are impressed by qualifications.

EMPLOYERS SEEK CREDENTIALS & EXPERIENCE
You need credentials when you are competing for attention in an advertisement offering a jo to candidates, or as a service provider or teacher. You also need to present your credentials in a CV (resume) when you apply for a job and at the job interview when there is only one position but several candidates.

LOSING COUNT
I started winning ribbons at Toastmasters for the best Topics speaker (impromptu speaker) best speaker and best evaluator. After I won fifty ribbons I started to lose count. I put them up in pictures frames around the house and ran around counting them. I made a list. I wrote large in my diary: I WON A RIBBON FOR ... AT  ...

 I wrote a white label on the back of the label.

PHOTO RECORD
One speaker did not keep a count of his trophies but showed a photo of himself surrounded by trophies. He told me, "I showed that photo to reassure the audience that they had not wasted their time and money. They were listening to an award-winning expert."

Add Your Names
Looking at my ribbons, which had the date and place, I realised an essential was missing. I knew it was my ribbon. But if I were to keep it all my life, I needed to note my name on it for my descendants, executors and others. I had inherited many items which had no name, wedding photos, even poems.

 Finally I remembered to add my own surname (family name). I initially wrote merely my first name, Angela.Then I added my surname. If I ever get a grandchild or daughter-in-law named Angela, other people will be confused. If I were to drop the item or lose it on a plane, nobody would be able to track me down and return it.

If you found awards in the family of a relative who had died with no name attached, you would not know whether this was an award to granny, her father, her husband, her emigrated son or daughter or a pretty or historic item she had bought in a shop.

Story Of A Delayed Funeral Due To Unlabelled Medals
My friend 'B' was in Korea in his early days and when he died his family found Korean war awards. At his funeral we had a delay because his son thought father had won awards in the Korean war and  displayed the medals on the coffin and wrote about them in the funeral speech.

However, an irate aunt said they were not the deceased man's medals because he was in a commercial service, the merchant navy, not the military. She suspected the medals were merely sentimental souvenirs probably bought from a shop or on line.

She told me, "It would be an insult to my father, who was awarded medals in the war, denigrating his achievement and honour, to display the medals as if somebody not in the war had won them!"

The moral is, label everything.

Author
Angela Lansbury, travel writer and photographer, author and speaker. 

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Fishguard Wishlist: Art Holiday, Canon, Fort, Pub, Tapestry

Problem
However long I spend in Fishguard, it is never quite long enough.

Answer
I am now making a careful wishlist.

1 The Tapestry
It took me three years to get to see the Last Invasion Tapestry. I have now seen it twice. It gets better every time. I read more of the panels. I listen to more of the video about how they planned and embroidered it.

2 The Shop
This year I managed to get into the shop next door to the town hall, run by volunteers. I brought back a lot of leaflets about the area. So much to see and do. Honey. Chocolate.

3 Writers' And Artists' Holiday
I went to Writer's Holiday springtime event in February. We were lucky with the weather. But the weather didn't matter because my painting course kept me happily involved with an excellent teacher, Susan Alison. Next year I shall do more caricatures and animals and tiny figures of humans in every landscape. I should practise all year.

4 Fishguard Fort
A walk with a few and history and ruins.

5 Under Milk Wood and Moby Dick
Read account in the bar at Fishguard Bay hotel.

6 The Canon
See the canon on the clifftop

7 The Ferry
Take the ferry to Rosslare in Ireland. Or walk down to photograph the ferry.

8 Janes Craft Shop and Teashop
Visit Janes for tea and the craft shop. Look for the twins.

9 Royal Oak Pub
See inside The Royal Oak pub where the French surrendered

Lower Harbour. 

All photos by Angela Lansbury. Copyright.

10 Lower Harbour
Drive down to the lower harbour. No car? Walk around lower town harbour. If you don't like walking and certainy not uphill, walk to the cafe on the corner (get map and directions from the tourist office ground floor of the town hall) and look down from the clifftop of the upper town.

Useful Websites
https://www.tripadvisor.co.uk/Hotel_Review-g2067430-d320230-Reviews-Fishguard_Bay_Hotel-Goodwick_Fishguard_Pembrokeshire_Wales.html
https://www.facebook.com/susanalisonart/posts/10156259308051757?notif_id=1519725629285509&notif_t=mention&ref=notif
writersholiday.net
https://www.tripadvisor.co.uk/Attraction_Review-g316015-d1551810-Reviews-The_Last_Invasion_Tapestry_Gallery-Fishguard_Pembrokeshire_Wales.html

Why You Should Book A Brilliant Art Course At Writers' Holiday in Fishguard

Sunset on Fishguard, inspiring aspiring artists at Fishguard Bay Hotel on the course run by Susan Alison at Writers' Holiday. Photo by Angela Lansbury. Copyright.

Problems
1 What to do when you have already been on umpteen writer's courses, poetry writing, novel writing, short story writing and songwriting? 
2 What if you can't draw or paint, except for painting by numbers? 
3 What if your partner wants to do a writing course and you don't?

Fishguard Bay Hotel through trees, at night. Photo by Angela Lansbury. Copyright.

Answer
The course I took at Writers' Holiday in Fishguard, Wales, only a long weekend in spring, started with dinner on Friday night at the hotel, ending with a packed lunch and a free lift down to the nearby Fishguard and Goodwick station. Over the four sessions on Saturday, and two on Sunday morning, we learned to draw and paint:
1 Light and shade to show distance and perspective, through the day,
2 Light and shadows, a landscape, 
3 Animals from dogs to horses, 
4 The human face proportions, and 
5 The human body proportions.

Here I am in the art room, wearing my waterproof apron, showing my painting. Photo by Angela Lansbury. Copyright.

Susan adapts her course to suit you.
Last year on a longer course I asked to do a caricature, without a sitter (everybody else was busy painting) I wanted a self-portrait. Susan found me a mirror. If I had thought in advance I could have emailed her in advance (which I did about one animal I wanted to draw, and I could have packed my own paints, or sizes of paper - such as miniatures or blank greetings cards.

Surely you can get all this from books, and from buying an online course? Yes, they are all good. But it's a great help to have somebody showing you what you can add to enhance your picture.

What did I learn?
Fill an empty sky with flying birds.
Put a bird on a branch.
Put a bird on a rooftop.
If you are the sort who likes the tragic and mournful, draw cemetery scenes.
If you are into motivation, draw lone characters trudging uphill through snow, with sunlight to guide them on their way to distant cities or buildings with lights.
If you like to uplift add couples at tables, put dancers in doorways and windows, or postman delivering parcels.

You may say, that's all cliché stuff. Every Christmas card does that. Every painting from medieval times does that. Or you might think - but of course - why didn't I think of that? Why did I not think of that when I started my sketch, my painting?

Susan starts you straight away with painting a background. It's so tedious to start with a sketch and not have painting until later, just as I gave up piano as a child when my first hal a dozen lessons were just playing scales and I never played a tune. Susan gets you painting straight away. Then we go back to sketching with a soft pencil before painting, and trying three or more versions of everything until we have a favourite, the one which looks exactly right.

Having a teacher on hand is such a help for all the practical stuff. I am painting and Susan comes over to advise me to change brushes. She says I'll get more control with a brush with shorter bristles. One big surprise is how much you can do with a huge brush, even fine work and parallel lines and curves.

There is so much to learn. As with everything else, getting started is one hurdle to overcome, Practising what you have learned is another. Having a finished product to take away is the 'icing on the cake'.

Painting by Angela Lansbury, reading for mounting. Photo by Angela Lansbury. Copyright.

Lessons Learned
What other mistakes did I make and learn from, besides using a different brush? Try your mount first.

Oops. Mount cuts in half bird and building. Photo by Angela Lansbury. Copyright.

Susan was very generous. She donated to everybody a mount and a backing board to take home your best picture, or all your pictures, with the best sandwiched in the middle, or as the flat base in a flat hard-sided suitcase, or in a briefcase. (Artists often have a dedicated bag which they carry themselves to guard against loss.)

If you are in a car, better still. But don't put your wedding table plan with the decoration you have drawn at the top and border, on a car seat. Somebody in your family will sit on it.

I had forgotten to take a kitchen roll holder for protecting paper. I usually try to remember to pack either a cardboard support from the inside of a toilet roll, or a long box for coffee capsules. I would use them to roll up a painting or certificate at a speaking contest. You end up with a curved piece of paper, unless it's just a ten-minute journey home.

Mounts
To go back to what I learned during the course. When I came to add the mount to my picture, I found it covered the outside inch or so at the edge of my painting.

The mount hid my signature. I had to cover the first signature with tree roots.

I then added a second signature further into the painting. I didn't want my signature conspicuously in the middle, in case I decided to display the painting without the mount. So I tried putting my signature inconspicuously on a boat, or a signboard, or the side of a building.

The picture overlapped the mount right or left. I tried moving the mount around, right or left, up or down. One way it obscured a window showing figures dancing. In fact, the mount hid an entire building!

The moral is, select your paper size, frame, and mount, before you start. I seem to remember that last year on another of Susan's course (a longer course lasting over a week) she taught us this at the beginning. Somehow I had forgotten. I should make myself a painter's checklist.

After several courses, or art school training, or being a professional artist like Susan, you will automatically do this.

So, if you want to start doing art, or would like a refresher, or a holiday with like-minded artists and aspiring artists, check below.

Answer
Go on an art course to learn how to illustrate book covers and illustrate your own books and DIY Christmas and birthday cards and gift cards.

I looked at Susan Alison's Facebook page showing a painting by another artist.

I wrote: That is brilliant. 

Yes, the trick is to add human interest to every landscape picture. A tiny person dwarfed by menacing or protective trees. Plus the determination of the protagonist, continuing their journey, through the sunrise and the sunset, despite the lonely trek, nothing to help, except nature, the shade from the trees, the light from the sun, but still continuing dauntlessly.

Susan Alison
Susan is an all-round artist but specialises in dogs and humorous pictures of her dog on cards, mats and all sorts of gifts you can buy for yourself and others.

Sunshine on Pagodas, painted at Writers' Holiday, Wales, 2018. Painting and Photo by Angela Lansbury. Copyright.

Angela Lansbury
I specialise in caricatures - funny faces, not always a likeness, but usually a likeness, not necessarily flattering, on the first attempt. If you don't like the first drawing, and you have invited me to dinner, I will do one or two more, in between courses. One person I drew, complete with all his wrinkles, looked at my first version and said, "It doesn't look like me ..." However, he conceded, "On the other hand, it looks just like my father!"

Speaker at lectern, caricature and photo by Angela Lansbury. Copyright.

You might like to click on each of these links in turn:

To contact Susan Alison, look at all her work, maybe buy a card or other item or get interested in a painting course:
https://www.facebook.com/susanalisonart/posts/

To contact Writers' Holiday and /or book an art course:
I could give you all the details but better that you go straight to their page and read all the facts and can sign up if you are interested.
www.writersholiday.net

To contact Angela Lansbury:
http://www.lulu.com/gb/en/shop/angela-lansbury/quick-quotations/paperback/product-21259011.html
https://www.amazon.com/Angela-Lansbury/e/B001K82R2A
Use Facebook, Linked-in, What's Ap. NB, there are thirteen people called Angela Lansbury including the actress. You will recognize my websites and my blogs and books on Amazon and Lulu my picture, the word Singapore, the word Toastmasters or the name of one of my books, such as: Quick Quotations, Who Said What When, Wedding Speeches.
I have many more posts on painting, photography, writing, Wales, learning Welsh, hotels, food, restaurants. See more posts in this blog and others on blogger. Please follow me on Facebook and Twitter.

Author
Angela Lansbury, travel writer and photographer, author and speaker.

A New Perspective On Painting Holidays

Self portrait by Angela Lansbury. 

Problem
Will I learn anything on a painting holiday or just left to sketch on my own - which I could do at home or without paying for a holiday?

Answer
You do learn just by doing. I learned that when you paint using a mirror you are reversed right to left, and when you are right handed you appear to be left-handed, as shown in this picture.
If you need a babysitter to make you paint consistently, stock up on paper and paints. even the worst painting holiday would be better than nothing, very relaxing.

If you have painting and want help with it, take it along or print a copy.

I can only recommend one painting holiday which I have taken recently. Susan Alison ran two courses at the start and end of the week at Writers' Holiday in Fishguard, Wales. She was brilliant in instructing us how to use colour to show perspective, use different brushes for different effects, and use proportions for the human head and body. She also looked at our paintings and showed us how make the paint thicker or more transparent and how to add interest in the foreground. 

She will be doing another course at Writers' Holiday next February. Highly recommended. She is on Facebook.
So is writers holiday.
www.writersholiday.net
https://www.visitbritainshop.com/world/ (trips, tours, offers: London; England, Scotland, Wales)

Author
Angela Lansbury, travel writer and photographer.

What's Welsh In Wales? Male Voice Choirs.

What's Welsh in Wales? The language for a start. You notice it on the signs the moment you cross into Wales. On the motorway. On the railway stations. But the most delightful Welsh language is the songs sung by the Welsh male voice choirs.

If you get a chance to hear a Welsh male voice choir, please do so. You can hear a male voice choir every year at the last night of Writers' Holiday in Fishguard Bay Hotel, Fishguard Wales. They (Cwmbach Male Choir) sing in competitions of choirs and at other events all over the world.

They end by singing the Welsh national anthem. Perhaps I should check on the wording.

The male voice choir isn't all men. They have a female accompanist on the piano and a young lady who sings and plays the harp.

On the right, with the red hair, is accompanist Jayne Thomas. Behind the two ladies is Brian Williams, secretary, who introduces the choir and links the songs with a humorous commentary, usually featuring topical jokes.

The hotel piano was good enough. The pianist did not need to use the electric keyboard she had brought with just in case. I asked, "Why didn't you use it, anyway, for a change?" She shook her head, "No need. It's a bit wobbly, compared to a solid piano."

You can buy a CD of the choir.

Angela Lansbury, travel writer and photographer, author and speaker.

Summer Writing Courses

Writing courses in the UK attract visitors from all over the world. Our writers also travel. If you are looking at the UK, here are some options:

JULY WRITING
WRITERS' HOLIDAY at FISHGUARD HOTEL, WALES (Formerly at Caerleon)
Also spring and autumn writing weekends.
I have been sent an invoice for £499 (deduct £10 if you paid that deposit last year).
NB Different prices for sharing double room and for a single room - it's a hotel. Some rooms at front have sea view, others don't, but mostly you are not in your room. You can sit outside on the terrace and have an extra day there. Hotel was used in films.
Free trip/time one afternoon midweek.
Courses - choose one of 5, second course choose one from 6-11.
Stay on for half board price of £49 per day.
Free parking. Station very near but it's uphill dragging your case to the hotel and they will collect you.
Run by Gerry and Anne and their family.
Courses include
1 Children's writing Anita Loughrey
6 Using photos to sell more by Simon Whaley.
Also Travel writing, poetry, contemporary romance, painting and drawing, historical novel, crime writing, short story.
Last year we went to Fishguard for the first time. We drove back to London stopping at a Welsh vineyard and seeing an evening performance at a Royal theatre in Bath, reaching NW London before midnight.
www.writersholiday.net

AUGUST SWANWICK Writers' Summer School, Derbyshire
Saturday 8 Aug to Friday 14 August.
email: secretary@swanwickwritersschool.org.uk
Swanwick also has a Facebook page.
Prices vary according to accommodation:
Prices: Main house standard £440 (washbasin in room, bathroom in corridor); main house en suite £535.
Lakeside £535.
Alan Booth Centre £595.
Part time accommodation (£130; £85 on Saturday from 4 pm.) from mid morning coffee on arrival day and one breakfast on day of departure.
Day visitors (no breakfast, starts after breakfast, includes other meals lunch and dinner £90; Sat £45.
Coach pickup and return from Derby Midland station at 3.45 and 5.15pm on the Saturday and returning 8.30 am prompt on Friday 14 Aug at £12.50 non-refundable.
You could continue north to the Edinburgh Festival.
Run by a committee of friendly and dedicated writers.
www.swanwickwritersschool.org.uk

SEPTEMBER WRITING
WARWICK UNI
2015 Warwick Festival of Writing
4-6 Sept, 2015 Conference Park, Uni of Warwick. Orangeades by National Association of Writers' Groups.
Three days £300 for non-NAWG members, and £270 for members.
www.nawg.co.uk
The university of Warwick offers delegates bars, cafes and restaurants and free use of the Fitness Centre and indoor swimming pool. Free parking permits are available to delegates.
You have t check out by 9.30 on departure day.
Non-writing partner for the whole weekend without the four workshops, £220 for non NAWG members, reduced for NAWG members to £190.

Others:
ARVON
Writing courses and retreats - where you spend your time mostly writing, rather than listening to others talking about writing. You may have to cook your own food in teams for just one meal - which could be a good thing to learn for the reclusive writer. To help you start and finish a novel. Grants available to help you with course fees.
Arvon.org

Comedy Writing Courses
All year, run in London by Amused Moose, and all over the UK by others. If you can find a comedy course in Edinburgh, ending in a performance, you might be able to attend a reunion party in London whose guest list includes other performers and talent spotters.

Overseas: Look for:
Courses in Europe.
Australia.
Songwriting (in expensive five star hotels in USA) - look for magazines, Nashville, Hollywood, Florida.
Songwriting in UK. (Expensive hotels for worldwide hits; or cheap campsites for the guitarists and folk singers. Swanwick has run two songwriting courses. I hope they will repeat them.)
WEA

Courses are advertised in writing magazines sold through newsagents and by subscription and available at festivals.

I'm saving this and stopping for coffee. Will add more details and photos later. Come back for more.
Angela Lansbury BA Hons
Author of ten books by mainstream publishers including:
Wedding Speeches and Toasts (Ward Lock / Cassell)
Etiquette For Every Occasion
Also ten recent books including:
Quick Quotations for writers and speakers (Lulu.com)
Who Said What When (Lulu.com)
Poetry Workbook
Writing Poetry For Fun
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What's new in Wales? Slate Cavern with trampolines

What's new in North Wales? Trampolines in Bleanu Ffestiniog.
That's not how I spell it - but the Welsh use one spelling the English another.  The spellchecker then changes it. I'm sure you can get the spelling you need from one of the websites.

At the World Travel market I met Kathryn Colling Cambria Tours Content and Marketing Manager.
I also met Gareth Daniels of North Wales Tourism.

This year I went to North Wales to Writers Holiday at Fishguard, where Under Milk Wood by Dylan Thomas was filmed. The holiday is at the big hotel in the area, Fishguard Bay Hotel up on the cliff overlooking the bay. Guess which famous film stars stayed there? See my previous posts. I'll add a photo later.

writersholiday.net

Trampolines bounce below.
www.bouncebelow.net
www.gonorthwales.co.uk
They are also on Facebook and twitter
facebook /GoNorthWales

If you are passing through South wales,
wwwvisitcardiff.com