Hello again!

Haven’t been on here for ages as couldn’t remember the sodding password. Have just reset it.

Saw this online the other day and thought I’d give it a go.

NORTH WALES SHORT STORY WRITING COMPETITION

Fancy yourself as a creative writer or is writing already one of your leisure pursuits? Then you’re well qualified to enter an exciting new short story writing competition organised by the Llandudno & District Writers Club, in conjunction with the North Wales Weekly News – with a top prize of £200. 

Your stories can cover crime, romance, comedy, travel, adventure, sport or any other genre you choose. The only stipulations are that they must be set in North Wales and be no longer than 1000 words in length. 

The competition will be judged by the Executive Editor of the North Wales Weekly News, Linda Roberts, and Pam Crane, the Editor of the Writers’ Club magazine. The six best entries will be published by the newspaper over consecutive weeks immediately after the competition closes in a month’s time. 

THE PRIZES

1st – £200 in cash. 
2nd – A brand new Kindle Paperwhite worth £100 donated by LLANDRILLO COLLEGE, Rhos on Sea.
3rd – One night stay for two in a Classic Room at the ST. GEORGE’S HOTEL, St.George’s Place, Llandudno, with full Welsh breakfast.
4th – £30 worth of book tokens from WATERSTONE’S of Mostyn Street, Llandudno
5th – Two free tickets for THEATRE CYMRU’S Christmas production of Cinderella.
6th – 7-DAY EXPLORER PASS donated by CADW.

In addition, all entrants will be given free membership of the Llandudno & District Writers Club for the next 12 months.

You can email your entries to Llandudno.writers@aol.co.uk or post typed hard copies to: The Llandudno & District Writers Club, 14 Penrhyn Drive, Rhos on Sea, Conwy LL28 4LD. Please send the entry fee of £5 to this address. The closing date for all entries is 10th July 2014. Cheques should be made out to Llandudno Writers Club. No employee of the North Wales Weekly News may enter, but the competition is open to everyone else, including Llandudno Writers’ Club members as long as they use a pseudonym!

Back to start

Tuesday just gone I finished an 8 week course at Crest that Working Links had sent me on as part of the work programme. Now it’s finished, I got a letter from Working Links giving me an appointment to go and see them. Back to where I started pretty much. What a load of rubbish.

Suicide Pact Couple

A married couple forced to live on £57 a week killed themselves in despair. The bodies of Mark and Helen Mullins were found lying side by side at their run-down home in a suicide pact. They had been forced to live ‘hand to mouth’, making a weekly 12-mile trip to a Salvation Army soup kitchen on foot after Mrs Mullins’s benefits were stopped 18 months ago. The couple were given free vegetables at the soup kitchen in Coventry each Sunday, which they boiled into a broth on a camping stove. They lived in one room of their terraced house to save on heating costs and could not afford a fridge so kept their food in plastic bags in the garden.
They felt they had ‘no future’ in a ‘ConDem’ britain led by a ruthless Conservative Party & took the decision to kill themselves after 18 months of struggling to survive on a single payment £57.50 JSA each week. Mrs Mullins, 59, suffered from learning difficulties, she was told by the DWP that she did not qualify for incapacity benefit because she had not been officially diagnosed with a medical condition.
The job centre decided Helen couldn’t sign on as she was incapable of employment as she has no literacy and numeracy skills. Mr Mullins was his wife’s full-time carer. He fought to get a carer’s allowance but was told he could not claim.

Boredom

Been a while since I’ve written anything here. Reason is there’s not much to write. Just the usual boring stuff.

You can keep your hat on

Cup of Tea calling

Keep Calm And Follow

Meh

I will be avoiding the bbc as much as possible until the corporate cash cow has buggered off.

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