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Send us Fan Mail Nine till ever. A tribute to Dolly Parton This week every other news item was superseded by the news of the death of country superstar Dolly Parton I learned how she wrote songs in consolation at tragic incidences in a rollercoaster of life. My friends will confirm that I am not easily disposed to visual displays of emotion. Maybe this tribute has something special in that respect...

Send us Fan Mail I am continuing my apprenticeship learning to use ChatGPT. At the moment, my experiment demonstrates how with minimum experience it is possible to find the appropriate amount of information and dealing with some problem. Today my problem was identifying a new local Business, which I believe to be some kind of music club. My conversation with ChatGPT went something like the followi...

Send us Fan Mail A discussion supported by ChatGBT and illustrating a practical search process. Stay up-to-date with all of Tudor's podcasts, blogs and current affairs commentary by signing up to our newsletter!  Email everydaycreativityuk@gmail.com to sign up! Follow Tudor on Twitter @ Tudortweet Follow Tudor's blogs: everydaycreativity.uk leaderswedeserve.wordpress.com

Send us Fan Mail An important skill for the age of AI is developing skills at prompting AI agents. This audio note outlines some preliminary thoughts of my own, and an interesting publication on the topic. First, a working definition. What do I mean by creative prompting? Creative prompting is the process of obtaining powerful suggestions from an AI system through the prompts provided by an indivi...

Send us Fan Mail This week, the United Kingdom discovered a new sporting heroine, in the European Games. Amy Hunt won four gold medals in an increasing blaze of publicity. As the BBC enthused Amy has never been afraid to choose the hard path. Undertaking an English Literature degree at Cambridge University, she was determined to prove - as she did in winning silver at last year's World Champi...

Send us Fan Mail Wednesday 12 August 2026 Tonight the world will go dark. Light from the Sun will be blocked off for a few minutes.  Put simply, the orbit of the moon gets between the Sun and the Earth. This briefly  blocks the light waves from the Sun. I report how the spectacular event impacted on myself, on thousands of eclipse watchers around the northern hemisphere and on the BBC reporters fo...

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Send us Fan Mail The BBC has recently presented a significant news event in a way that seems to me to be utterly irresponsible and biased.  It shows how reporting the news can slide into creating a news story to achieve an implicit goal.  Stay up-to-date with all of Tudor's podcasts, blogs and current affairs commentary by signing up to our newsletter!  Email everydaycreativityuk@gmail.com to...

Send us Fan Mail This week in the United Kingdom, two people were thrust into the headlines. One is a university professor. The other is a convicted criminal whose rehabilitation as a local counsellor is being backed by the leader of the Conservative Party. It sometimes seems that such stories have an increased chance of success if the key figure has an extremely unusual name, or unconventional ap...

Send us Fan Mail One of those stories you want to believe in, even if you suspect there is an element of promotional wishful thinking about it. The four grandmothers, Lynn, Susie, Rose, and Christine met wrestler Gordon DeReiss while travelling to Las Vegas to scatter the ashes of Rose's late husband, Pete.  As sometimes happens, Gordon was sitting in one of their seats. He was wise enough no...

Send us Fan Mail I wrote it this song initially for myself. It is called Dusky Come Ride with Me. An Anglo-Welsh Odyssey.  I hope someday it will be heard and maybe sung by a new generation, with a deeper appreciation of the dynamic interplay between the English and Welsh languages and their cultures. Stay up-to-date with all of Tudor's podcasts, blogs and current affairs commentary by signin...

Send us Fan Mail Recently, a new nightmare known as Gazundering has entered into the process of selling a house… Stay up-to-date with all of Tudor's podcasts, blogs and current affairs commentary by signing up to our newsletter!  Email everydaycreativityuk@gmail.com to sign up! Follow Tudor on Twitter @ Tudortweet Follow Tudor's blogs: everydaycreativity.uk leaderswedeserve.wordpress.com

Send us Fan Mail Guess what? I lost my phone yesterday. I did all the usual stuff searching many times in the same place and getting the same result. That’s one definition of insanity according to Albert Einstein. As I was carrying out my futile search, the enormity of my loss struck me. The first obvious reason was that I could not contact anyone to help in my search, because I had deprived mysel...

Send us Fan Mail For many years, local elections in England have been brightened by the appearance of a bizarre figure dressed in a surreal costume topped by  a space age dustbin. Some have been angered by what they see as making a mockery of the sacred democratic process. Others have celebrated it as an example of quirky English humour lighting up the drab political scene. Count Binface grabbed t...

Send us Fan Mail Coming up with a new idea for a product is one of those examples of a search for everyday creativity. The challenge crops up in a wide range of contexts and the approach I’m going to describe is one of various ways of carrying out a successful search.  It can, however, be applied across a wide range of practical situations. I will take an example an attempt to provide a title for...

Send us Fan Mail As regular listeners to my audio casts will know, I am addicted to detective thrillers and particularly to those in the so-called golden age roughly between the first and second world wars. Among the galaxy of star writers, one blazed more brightly than the others. Agatha Christie‘s personal life has become as much a mystery in several ways as those fictional mysteries which broug...

Send us Fan Mail Keir Starmer’s historic final hours as prime minister. Shortly after 9 am, it was clear the moment was imminent, when he and his wife Victoria appeared in front of No 10 Downing Street.  It is often a symbolic changing of the political guard. Staff from No 10 are in the street applauding.  Starmer begins the most difficult speech he has ever had to make… Stay up-to-date with all o...

Send us Fan Mail Over the course of many years, I had probably over quoted the story about Archimedes and his moment of discovery which has become known as the Eureka phenomenon. As it gets taught in universities around the world, Archimedes discovered his famous principle while in his bath prompting him to leap out and run through the streets of Athens crying something loosely transliterated into...

Send us Fan Mail I’m still getting my head around what I witnessed watching Question Time, yesterday evening. I was attracted to the idea of the programme with the leading candidates in the Makerfield by-election.  Some years ago, I enjoyed Question Time,  when it permitted intelligent debate between guests with interventions from the audience. This seemed to change with the departure of the autho...

Send us Fan Mail The question of copyright has become a hot issue with the rise of creative products assisted by artificial intelligence systems. I started thinking about this recently with a specific case example. It cropped up the work directed by Jonathan Levitt in  producing a wide range of songs supported by his lyric writers, including myself, with Stephen Tranter, and a range of distinguish...

Send us Fan Mail This example of dark Russian humour was published on X translated from a Portuguese  source.  The story is about the interrogation of President Putin in a question and answer session at a Russian school. The first question is from Sasha…. Stay up-to-date with all of Tudor's podcasts, blogs and current affairs commentary by signing up to our newsletter!  Email everydaycreativi...

Send us Fan Mail How to spot a traitor This audio Post was triggered by the timing of my return from a visit to my tennis club every Saturday morning. I still enjoy listening to radio five for the sports programs. On Saturdays, there is a problem called ‘spot the traitor’. It involves three football fans, each eulogising on the football team. However, one of the fans is fake, a traitor if you like...

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Send us Fan Mail I use Amazon a lot. But my appreciation of Amazon’s outstanding delivery service goes along with a considerable concern I have about the impact of its business practices at a local and a global level.  I asked Dr Google ‘Why is Amazon criticised for its business practices?’ This is what I learned … Stay up-to-date with all of Tudor's podcasts, blogs and current affairs commen...

Send us Fan Mail Celtic win breaks Hearts Hearts football club lost the title in a race they had been leading through throughout most of the season too many times champions Celtic. They lost in a devastating fashion at the last minute. Celtic have been serial winners of the competition. Hearts have never won it. Celtic fans enjoyed that fantastic moment.  Hearts returned to their home territory wh...