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Glaisdale life

9/5/2013

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I've spent most of the week working on the Valley News website (please give us your feedback - still plenty of room for improvement!) The National Park with Susan Briggs of the Tourism Network recently ran marketing workshops for local businesses, which have proved very helpful. We've also been developing sample pages for a new comic book series about the Unexplained which Ken Webb of Worth Press took to the London book fair. We worked with Ken in the past and this would be a nice chance to get together again if we can find book partners to publish the series. Now he wants more material for the US fairs. Time to get busy. Planting in the garden will have to wait. 

Well, still a few moments to play the uke... The Eskuleles ukulele band had their debut at Grosmont Crossing Club on 27 April - what an outing! The Crossing Club is this unique little cosy bar off the high street in Grosmont, which is where the steam engines have their loco sheds. You enter through double doors and up a couple of steps and then immediately into this great space that looks like a cross between the back room of a pub and someone's living room, but 10 times nicer than you ever expected, especially when teeming with musicians and interesting characters propping up the bar. Caroline Robson organised it all and was running round pulling pints, doing the MC, fetching pies from Whitby at half time, and singing and playing in between. Amazing. She arranged for members of the George Formby Society and uke players from other clubs and a few independents to join up, play some songs, share stories and ukuleles. There were people there who own 10+ ukes! A big cheer for Caroline for her fantastic welcome, for getting everyone together and for her brilliant musicianship. 

The Glaisdale poetry group is going strong. Strangely fascinating having your poem dissected in front of a group of people. We now have to read our poems at a wine and words evening on 17 May, Glaisdale. Emphasis on the wine...

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    Valley News is published by Basement Press, a small publishing company located in Glaisdale in the Esk Valley of the North York Moors. This is a joint enterprise between Nicola Chalton (editor) and Pascal Thivillon (designer) which started life in a basement office in Kilburn, North London, in 2004. We left London in 2009 to 'get a life' in the fresh air of Yorkshire (which also happens to be Nicola's home county).


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