Back again....

 

I haven't posted a blog here since July 2011 but I'm going to make a promise to write a post once a week minimum from now. You can catch up recent writing business on my website- www.vivienjones.info - music business on www.thegallowayconsort.co.uk - it's been a busy year all round, mostly happy but darkened by the death in October of our dear friend Laurence Jay who played lute, vihuela and recorder in our band for the last twenty or so years. He last played with us in public in May at Blackwells Bookshop in Edinburgh and continued to come for lunch and  practice through the summer. We'd planned to perform again at our Wigtown Book Festival concert in October but he was too unwell to make that. We miss him terribly.

 But to current activity - I'm adapting a couple of my women-amongst-warriors stories for possible theatre workshop and performance later in the year. Working on stage two of the Powfoot Writers project - life-writing this time to which they are bringing all their enthusiasm and growing skills. Crichton Writers have chosen 'Space' for their 2012 project - so the minds are dutifully boggling. I've just given a most rewarding reading from my books to the Kirkcudbright Literary Society in the library at Broughton House - it's always gives me such a lift to know that people are enjoying what I write - such a solitary business so often which is why I sometimes write in collaboration with others.

It's been cold down here, and foggy.