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Send us Fan Mail Wendy Lockinge is preparing to attend the funeral of Dr Trescothick killed in the accident at Meniscus Laboratories. She muses on how much a mystery he remains. After the lengthy drive to Kent in the University's ageing Bentley she   encounters three men whose lives seem connected to that of Brian Trescothick. She labels then the Mourner, the Soldier and the Man of Power. The...

Send us Fan Mail On John Keane's arrival at Urmston University, his faculty head Montague Burton takes him to meet Simon Chalmers, the University Librarian. He warns him that the Librarian mocks senior academics by pretending to be an Orang-Utan. As he is speaking, the librarian but Keane wins him over by pretending to treat him in his role by offering him a banana. Chalmers befriends Keane a...

Send us Fan Mail The village square, Bramhall, is the pivot around which the community orbits. Well-trodden pathways converge to the nucleus of our community. There is mini-playground for mini people, surrounded by all the services a resident could want. A Sainsbury's, a Pizza house, An Optician's, Solicitors, Dog grooming parlour, Oxfam, Gift shops, Herbal remedies (free Hormone advice)...

Send us Fan Mail John Keane has resumed his lectures at the University, but is concealing his continuing flashbacks of his illness and meeting with the old man, as well as the drying up of his research. His lecture one morning is interrupted by the news that there has been an accident at  Meniscus Research Laboratories. The head of Lab Dr Trescothick has been fatally injured, prior to a visit to t...

Send us Fan Mail Jessica Lockinge believes her mother should be attempting to discover what happened to her father. In her anger she vows to start her own detection agency.  She meets John Keane and decides he will be a suitable client for her detective work. He is in trouble for breaking university rules, and the loathsome Professor Snee is trying to end his contract.  Jessica decides John Keane...

Send us Fan Mail Tuesday 8 November.  Another Westminster politician resigns in disgrace. Gavin Williamson had a controversial political career after working for a doubling-glazing business. That would have given plenty of ammunition for political opponents. He might have risen above the taunts of being a double-glazing salesman. But he didn’t. Maybe it also shaped his career. He became an enforce...

Send us Fan Mail Many authors like to share embryonic ideas,  in a process sometimes called co-creativity. In this example an author/editor team play around with an idea exploring its potential for moving the idea on to the writing stage. We present the unedited transcript of our discussion. We found it interesting as a process for collaborating, and hope other authors and editors might also find...

Send us Fan Mail John Keane is recovering from his long illness, reflecting on the decision which took him from his time at the Meniscus research Laboratories to becoming a University Lecturer. He reflects on his  continued failure to make progress in his research and his efforts to conceal it. He worries that his contract will not be reviewed.  Stay up-to-date with all of Tudor's podcasts, b...

Send us Fan Mail Watching the decisions coming from Rishi Sunak’s team in its first weeks, reminds me very much of student teams I have come across, struggling to make sense of the problems they are facing. Are we watching a team from hell facing increasing internal conflicts and eventual self-destruction? Stay up-to-date with all of Tudor's podcasts, blogs and current affairs commentary by s...

Send us Fan Mail Elon Musk has finally clinched the on-off deal for Twitter with a deal quoted as an over-priced $44 billion. He is now proposing an extension of the site’s blue tick badge scheme for $8 a month. Millions of users are threatening to quit. His actions  over the last few months have been that of an enormously wealthy vaccilating adolescent. At times he reflected market opinion that h...

Send us Fan Mail A short podcast illustrating how ideas flow in a team environment. A news report of the discovery of a rare mushroom was reported. The news item triggered off other ideas including a short story about Megan and her Lonely Mushroom. Contributors Mike Ogden who warned of the dangers of talking about magic mushrooms William Thompson who came up with the idea of Megan and her lonely m...

Send us Fan Mail I am at war. My enemy has overwhelming forces. Like many a conflict, my territory has been invaded in a lightening attack. In this case, by an army of fruit flies. I am battling to repel the mini-squadrons but to little avail... Stay up-to-date with all of Tudor's podcasts, blogs and current affairs commentary by signing up to our newsletter!  Email everydaycreativityuk@gmail...

Send us Fan Mail John Keane receives a series of visitors at his hospital bed, but struggles to identify reality from hallucinations.   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 leaders...

Send us Fan Mail In his first day as PM, Rishi Sunak assembled a Cabinet. He has included members regardless of political differences. This differs from the decisions of Boris Johnson, and even more so of Liz Truss who preferred the approach of choosing loyalists. The most controversial appointment is Suella Braverman, purveyor of right wing muscular views on immigration. Braverman is popular with...

Send us Fan Mail The story is picked by Hugo Mifflin head of Personnel at Meniscus Laboratories.  We learn of a long-running feud at Meniscus involving John Keane, and a fellow scientist, Julian Callender, which may have influenced John Keane in his departure for Urmston University. His health had deteriorated and is experiencing a period of recovery for hospitalisation. The head of the Laboratory...

Send us Fan Mail John Keane has left Urmson on a secondment to Urmston University organised by his academic manager, Montague Beamer. He has met the University Vice-Chancellor Wendy Lockinge who seems interested in his earlier meeting with the mysterious old man. At breakfast one day, he meets the celebrity academic Tony Scrivener, the glamorous student Hudson Baye, and briefly, the student activi...

Send us Fan Mail On the day a new Prime Minister was appointed, after the brief reign of the last one, strains of a song filtered through an open bathroom window.  It may have been a gleeful party activist but whether for the Conservative Party or the opposition is not clear... Stay up-to-date with all of Tudor's podcasts, blogs and current affairs commentary by signing up to our newsletter! ...

Send us Fan Mail John Keane encounters a mysterious old man who tells him about an ancient  secret society which passes on their secrets  by means of books each written by an author who is a member of the society. He is directed to study the masterwork by the Economist Maynard Keynes, and told he will be contacted later by the old man. He is later invited to a meeting at Urmston University, by Mon...

Send us Fan Mail This has been the craziest week in U.K. politics since we cut off the head of King Charles 1st. Highlights included the sacking of top cabinet leaders, a lettuce becoming a joke measure of political survival time, the resignation of our Prime Minister, and Larry the Downing Street Cat seeing off a  marauding fox. Of, yes and now a speed-dating version of Eenie, Meenie, Mindy, Moe...

Send us Fan Mail Friday 14 October. Overnight, The Chancellor Kwasi Kwartang (KK)  has cut short his American trip, and is returning for discussions with Liz Truss.  Midday. News leaks out that KK is to resign as Chancellor, or be sacked.  BBC news is on full political crisis alert. The BBC1 Politics Live show has its customary spectrum of opinion pundits.  KK has left his post, sacked or resigned...

Send us Fan Mail This is only the third PMQs since Liz Truss began her ill-fated Premiership. Since then, her original plan has been hung drawn and quartered, by market reaction, and this week by her replacement Chancellor, Jeremy Hunt. One pressure point is the so-called triple-lock on pensions.  My summary notes are abbreviated, but capture the general tenor of a noisy session. But the PMs trava...

Send us Fan Mail Chess, like other sports such as cricket, has speeded up aided by electronic clocks and fast versions of the game. in this podcast, I look at the under-appreciated innovation which ended the era of timeless chess. 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...

Send us Fan Mail Friday 14 October. 8.00am Overnight, The Chancellor, Kwasi Kuarteng has cut short his American trip, and is returning for discussions with Prime Minister Liz Truss.  Midday News leaked,  then the leak confirmed that Kwasi Kuarteng  is to resign as Chancellor, or be sacked.   BBC news is on full political crisis alert ... Stay up-to-date with all of Tudor's podcasts, blogs and...

Send us Fan Mail The BBC has granted Elon Musk a three one-hour mini-series on … Elon Musk.  Without charging him for three hours of advertising. First learning point. You don’t become the richest man in the world without being a great marketeer. The title is a hint that we are to watch show biz in its treatment. We are not disappointed.  The scene is set for a heroic tale of the childhood genius...

Send us Fan Mail Wendy Lockinge looks back on her childhood and fast tracking into the police force, where she meets Robbie Lockinge.  He warns her that they can never have a life together unless she shares the secret of his undercover work for a Government agency.  She agrees, becomes a high-profile figure after her success bringing a multi-murderer to justice.  But her dreams are shattered when...