Although Lockdown has allowed many of us to reconnect with nature, I’ve always thought of myself as pretty connected already – being a gardener and having a degree in Environmental Biology. But I hold up my hand to being pretty
Author: byddilee
Lockdown Lemonade
When the world gives you lockdown, you don’t have much choice other than to make the best of it. Combined with the New Year resolutions to get fit, sunrise at 8.45 am and hard frost, and it’s a pretty potent
Goodbye 2020, Happy New Year 2021
I’ve been lazy of late… lazy with my photography, reverting to using the camera phone and the tweaking software on Instagram rather than going all out with the “big camera” and downloading it to the desktop to tweak with much
A Paid-up Member of the Living Poets Society!
If truth be told, I’m not a poet. All them odes to Daffodils and sonnets in fourth and fifth year at school put me off. I didn’t like Heaney’s “Digging” – maybe it was too familiar. I don’t know why,
Playtime
It’s the night before Dress Rehearsal and all through the house, not a creature is stirring… I’m in Zoom as an audience member, watching only. The first actor to arrive probably doesn’t know I can see her. She takes a
Armagh Theatre Group Zooming in ‘Social Bubbles’
If success were measured by the amount of fun you have with a project then I declare Armagh Theatre Group’s Zoom-plays a triumph even before the second one, ‘Social Bubble, Toil & Trouble’ goes out live on 19th, 20th and
Rejuvenation 3 – The Grand Finale
Writing is a lot like gardening – you plant your bulbs in the dark days of winter and then they surprise you by actually growing and coming up all at once! Castrum Press celebrate their release of Rejuvenation Book 3
An Evening of Real, Live, Face-to-Face People
There have been so many challenges during the pandemic that a lack of literary events seems to be very low down on the list of priorities. Still, when the Armagh City, Banbridge and Criagavon Borough Council (ACBC council – the
Flash Fiction in the Orchard Line-up
I’m finding it hard to believe it’s happening, really happening; that we’ll be gathering in person to hear wonderful stories read aloud in front of a mic (note to self: antiseptic wipes!) at the Flash Fiction in the Orchard. A
Where Do Flutterbies Go in the Rain?
Yesterday I captured a photograph of a beautiful Small Tortoiseshell butterfly on a marigold in my garden. He was very ‘tame’ (sluggish,) so I was able to get really close to take the shot. This is it straight out of