Shades of Autumn

Be Creative

Well, with the signs of creativity that I posses, I honestly feel that I am an artist. I am not sure why people around me just find it difficult to digest. I feel you would not be able to make it out if it’s me or Bryan Adams singing if I would sing with the same music, like with Karaoke. But obviously people around me have their reasons for jealousy which I think is spoiling my creativity. One of the More

My Birthday Blues

Here’s a little secret for you - it’s almost my birthday. How old am I? Not telling. I may or may not be experiencing my third decade aboard this planet, so you do the mathematics! I’m really not that old, but I can vouch that the older you get, the less excited about birthdays you become. When I was a little girl I would get SO excited about my next birthday - the presents, the birthday cake and candles - More

Art Inspiration

At this time of year, when the trees are bare and the leaves are long-gone and melted into the mushy ground, it has the strangest effect on me – I just want to run into the nearest stationers, buy a whole load of art materials and get seriously crafty. I get genuinely inspired by the way the wintry sunlight filters through the sparse branches of the trees and it instantly makes me want to either take a photograph that More

Aladdin at West Yorkshire Playhouse

I have to admit I’m not a fan of pantomime. The cliches, the endless repetition of the same jokes. Maybe it’s prejudice - I know that like all art forms, when done well it can be brilliant - but to be honest most of the time I find pantomime about as interesting as buying office supplies uk online. Functional, sometimes even important, but not exactly riveting.

So I wasn’t expecting much from Gail Macintyre’s production of Mike Kenny’s adaptation of More