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Send us Fan Mail My selection of tweets from Twitter, published November 2022. The authors are aknowledged in my blogpost https://leaderswedeserve.wordpress.com/2022/12/09/the-wit-and-wisdom-of-twitter/ 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 @...

Send us Fan Mail Jessica Lockinge continues her efforts to recruit John Keane as her first client for her detective agency.  During her school break back the the University she asks for his help in a project about leadership. John reluctantly agrees.  He learns from Jessica about the mysterious happenings at the Zoo. She suspects members of the Animal Rights movement at the University  are involve...

Send us Fan Mail This message is about me discovering my Goblin mode. But first, I have explain how it connects to being Woke. Woke passed me by for quite some time.  As I understand it, there has been much use of woke in a derogatory way. The term, woke, as every reader Guardian reader like me knows, is about being aware of cultural sensitivity. So, to take a few recent examples, take the Preside...

Send us Fan Mail We meet Pawan Rashid, who reveals he served with Dando Llewelyn in Afghanistan, before returning to work at Menscus. Dando contacts him and asks his help on a new but top secret mission, code name Project Sultan. The first steps of Project Sultan involves Dando and Hudson Baye. Pawan meets Dando secretly and tells him of work going on at Meniscus involving the Italian business tyc...

Send us Fan Mail Hudson Baye Hudson Baye was told by Tony Scrivener her academic advisor that she will be interviewed by the police over the incident at the student night club and she should write down what happened. Her account reveals Kingson Roberts had been her guest and had mysteriously been drugged before leaving to a night club in Manchester where the fatal knife attack on him took place. S...

Send us Fan Mail Wendy Lockinge acts on the information sent her by her mother Elizabeth. She sets up a visit to the Zoo with John Keane and Susie Yup to investigate possible involvement by student activist. His  unofficial Zoo visits with his students had already given John Keane unwelcome publicity. On arrival they find the new director is a former student at Urmston who gives them access to the...

Send us Fan Mail The LLLPS will soon be celebrating its twentieth anniversary of daily meetings for discussions and social interactions with passing Didsbury residents, and their children and dogs. Today, I have my discussion topic ready. ‘My friend Oldbutfit is a football fan but has taken a vow to avoid watching or listening to transmissions of the World Cup. Is he unique in this respect?’ Stay...

Send us Fan Mail Elizabeth Lockinge, Wendy's mother has learned of a mysterious stranger visiting the local Zoo taking photographs of the animals. She believes the stranger may be a journalist wanting a story on animal rights. She contacts Wendy because of the animal rights activists led by Dando Llewelyn at the University and tells her she will investigate on her behalf. Wendy has her own su...

Send us Fan Mail DCI Parrswoode meets with a young Detective Lucky Docic in a Motorway service station. She tells him her concerns about DC Bernard Brother. Parrswood tells her not to worry as he has plans to keep Bernard occupied. He later calls Bernard in for an interview and tells him of his suspicions about Bernard's arrival at Urmston. He tells him he is assigned to puppy watching as the...

Send us Fan Mail DC Brother, The new University liaison officer turns up requesting to see Wendy Lockinge. He explains he is visiting on his other duties enquiring about someone named Kingston Roberts who was at the student nightclub the previous evening.  Brother informs Wendy that Roberts went on to another nightclub where he was fatally wounded in a knife fight. She offers her support to the in...

Send us Fan Mail A distinguished volunteer visited Buckingham Palace in recognition of her services. She reports her experience as leaving her with 'mixed feelings'.  Others have been less cautious in their descriptions of what happened... Stay up-to-date with all of Tudor's podcasts, blogs and current affairs commentary by signing up to our newsletter!  Email everydaycreativityuk@g...

Send us Fan Mail If you are someone who believes you should drink at least eight glasses of water a day, the answer might surprise you.  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 leader...

Send us Fan Mail Address to  HSE International Academic Conference ‘Сreative Economy: Main Development Trends and State Policy’   Friday 24 November 2022 I thank you for this opportunity of sharing ideas with an international audience, and look forward to an exchange of views.  One of my great pleasures over the years is to have seen how the fields of creativity and innovation have benefitted from...

Send us Fan Mail This is a lengthy chapter narrated by Susie Yup, journalist friend of John Keane. It records items she published in her newspaper, and also records meetings over the period of John Keane’s arrival at the University of Urmston. She reports a breakout at a local Zoo believed to be a deliberate action by the University’s Animal Liberation activists. It is followed with her account of...

Send us Fan Mail Wendy Lockinge decides to set up a  team to investigate the death of Dr Trescothick. She selects him because of his knowledge of Meniscus, but appears to know of his secretive investigations with the Librarian. She adds Susie Yup to the team as a local journalist who is a friend of John Keane.  From her department she choses Orlando,  her personal assistant, and a trusted senior a...

Send us Fan Mail In the absence of the new Champion of Westminster, two promising battlers from the undercard step up in a qualifying fight. We imagine how PMQs might go as the battle starts... 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 @ Tudortwee...

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...