Category Archives: Thoughts & Ramblings
Friday is POETS day!!! My latest podcast is here!
Friday is POETS day & this week’s podcast is one of my own concoctions called “Endless Possibilities” Click and check it out! Cheers! 🙂
Friday is POETS day…My weekly podcast
This week’s podcast is now available. Click & listen to Reach Out Suscribe via iTunes> Iain Kemp Poetry Enjoy!!! 🙂
Friday is POETS day – it’s podcast time again!!
This week’s podcast is a big fat no, a flat refusal, an absolutely non-negotiable negative response. Click and check out: “I am not doing that!
Hold that Stream of Consciousness
This week see’s the return of my own poetry podcasts. The latest recording is “Hold That Stream of Consciousness” Check it out by clicking the active link. Enjoy!! 🙂
Cute Printer – Free .pdf writer
Hey! If you like my recipes (or anything else on the web) and the page hasn’t got a print button (I don’t know how to do that yet!) or you’re not connected to a printer then what you need is … Continue reading
Pondering the Meaning of Dreams
Pondering the Meaning of Dreams I said this blog would have random “stuff” on it; well this is pretty random… …I suppose we all sit and cogitate the meanings of our dreams – those of us that dream (I find … Continue reading
Excursion Photos
Just posted a load of photo albums from summer school excursions from Oxford. Check them out in the drop down menu at From Amidst the Dreaming Spires 🙂
Magic Bread
I have to confess.. I LOVE magic! Conjuring, up-close and personal sleight of hand…. this is about as ridiculous and amazing as it gets:
Beyond this point there be Dragons!
Originally, this was to be the name of my new blog but there was a lot of variations already in the search engines and I decide on “Without Anaesthetic“. Why? Well the idea was that I share thoughts and musings … Continue reading
Drawing on the expertise of others…
I cannot draw, ask my students! But, I know people who can and the word from the colonies is that both artists working on illustrating hope-to-be-children’s books are making progress. Very excited about the prospect of making submissions for these … Continue reading
Romeo and Juliet
The highlight of St. Hugh’s so far came today… …teaching a class on interpreting Shakespeare, using Romeo and Juliet 2.2 (the balcony scene). With some guidance on the metaphors they worked it out and then I played the first two … Continue reading
Unprompted
I can’t remember the last time I wrote without a prompt, just sat down and started writing… …and as I haven’t written for a couple of weeks and felt inclined to do so, I thought I’d share the outcome. Unprompted … Continue reading
From Amidst the Dreaming Spires
Where? I hear you ask. Why, Oxford of course! Here is where you’ll find an insight into my summer school adventures in England. specifically I am teaching English as a Foreign Language at a school based in St. Hugh’s College, Oxford University. … Continue reading
Getting there bit by bit…
…well some progress is being made. Hmm..is it terribly pretentious to use the passive when I am the agent? Probably! Never mind! I have uploaded all of the cookery content to date and 25% of the poetry archive from the … Continue reading
Frustration at the blog creation station….
leads to the question begging is wordpress right for me, do I have to spend money on a premium upgrade, will this ever work?????????? The WP blurb says make your own website but it just doesn’t do what I want … Continue reading
