Poetry Postcard: Straight Up

May 3, 2020 by Frances Macaulay Forde

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Mark Knopfler : Piper To The End — The Immortal Jukebox

April 26, 2020 by Frances Macaulay Forde

Synchronicity. Serendipity. A kindling of the imagination. I am scrolling down the myriad programme options on my TV menu when I see a documentary called, ‘Pipers of The Trenches’ and immediately press the record button as it unites my interests in History and Music. Resolving to watch the programme later I punch the play button […]

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My mum was a hero too…

April 25, 2020 by Frances Macaulay Forde

On the 5th June 1944 Margaret McAlpine Bell Macaulay married Flight Lieutenant J.A. Forde DFC who was a Master Bomber with the Pathfinder Squadron. Quite apart from being a mum to four and a wonderful wife to my hero dad, my mum was a hero too.

Unlike Dad’s logbook detailing his flying in WW11, I have no record to refer to Mum’s experiences in the WAAF. The only time she ever mentioned the war she told me she started smoking while sheltering in an underground station, with hundreds of others, as bombs rained down during the Blitz of London.

My husband and I applied (on her behalf) for and received the medals Mum was entitled. I wish we’d been able to show our pride when she was alive. InfoMedals_0002DOC

#AnzacDay2020 #CorpMMBMacaulayWAAF #WW11Heroes

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Poetry In Lockdown

April 15, 2020 by Frances Macaulay Forde

Alexander McCall Smith and Helena Bonham Carter turn to poetry to light up the lockdown

Tony Allen-Mills

Sunday April 12 2020, 12.01am BST, The Sunday Times

The novelist Alexander McCall Smith and the actress Helena Bonham Carter have both offered to cheer up lockdown-stricken readers of The Sunday Times.

McCall Smith has written a poem, below, in honour of health workers who are risking their lives to help the sick.

The Scottish author has two daughters who are doctors working on the coronavirus front line. “Now we have come to realise that all about us there are heroes,” he said. READ THE FULL ARTICLE AND HEAR HIS POEM

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Tinga Tinga Tales from Africa

April 13, 2020 by Frances Macaulay Forde

My little grandson Bodhi just loves this clever series… highly recommended.

#TingaTingaTales #BodhiLoves #Children’sSeries #AnimatedSeries

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‘Hold My Hand I’m Dying.’

April 11, 2020 by Frances Macaulay Forde

I remember reading his book when I was young and have never forgotten the ending… so tragic and so full of the Africa I knew. If you haven’t read it – I recommend you do.

Obituary: John Gordon Davis: Rhodesian-born author of ‘Hold My Hand I’m Dying’

09 November 2014 – 02:04BY CHRIS BARRON

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#ZimbabweUDI #TheRealAfrica

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Freo Doctor

April 11, 2020 by Frances Macaulay Forde

This is my man and I, in COVID-19 isolation!

Perth Words... exploring possibilities.

Had forgotten this one too…

Freo Doctor

Fluffy

birds paused

full-fronting the sea breeze.

Two wanderers grip fine wire,

then gone.

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Secret Places — SOCIAL BRIDGE ~ Jean Tubridy connecting with you from Ireland

April 9, 2020 by Frances Macaulay Forde

I have been spending a lot of time over the last few years, while I was away from here, sorting through my late father’s photographs. They bring me all over Ireland and to some other European countries. They bring me more pleasure than I could ever describe and I hope that there are still […]

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Prose Poem: Jetty — Helen Hagemann’s Studio

April 5, 2020 by Frances Macaulay Forde

Jetty Supposing at a certain time there is a jetty, suppose it is never used or necessary, suppose no one is permitted on its hardwood boards and no angling allowed not even if it’s autumn, certainly not utilised further into winter to spring and the middle of summer when there’s sufficient stocks of lively silver […]

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Andrew Lloyd Webber Musicals Are Free Online Amid Coronavirus Pandemic

April 4, 2020 by Frances Macaulay Forde

HOLLYWOOD REPORTER:

11:54 AM PDT 4/2/2020 by Trilby Beresford

The first show in the series will be ‘Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat,’ premiering April 3 at 11:00 a.m.

In the midst of theater shutdowns, social distancing and home isolation because of the novel coronavirus pandemic, a series of familiar musicals by Andrew Lloyd Webber are set to appear online each week for free viewing.

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