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| JANUARY 2010 - Happy New Year to you all! Hope you can all get the car off the drive and get to work in the snow! (not!) A big thanks to all those who sent in details of their performances to date, particularly of 'Christmas - Why do we do that?' It's great to hear how people are using the material and some of the photos of the performances looked great (especially some of the hats!) There is a new featured 'playlet' (baby play) this month (below) with a 'right on' environmental theme. I am busy writing and testing out some more material which will rear its ugly head soon. Emailing me should be a lot easier now as you don't have to fill in the official form (unless you want to on the 'contact Sid page' - it allows for 'market analysis', whatever that is!) You can just click on the email link below to send a bog standard email. Cheers Sid (Here's some more brackets)
FEBRUARY 2010 - Ah, the month of romance, more snow, rain, no leftover Christmas cake and continuing dark nights (Big up to all SAD sufferers, your therapy starts here!) If you want romance with a twist, check out 'Rodney 'n' Jools - a modern scene from a balcony (short but sweeeeet!) One of Shakespeare's lesser know plays that he wrote in collaboration with the Two Ronnies. I haven't changed the featured play because it still has some energy left in it but I have added a new play called "Eureka! Eureka! - Inventions and discoveries through the ages!". It's in a 'beta' format (that's a geek's way of saying that it might have a few errors that I have not thoroughly checked yet!) but I wanted to get it on quickly. I will check it for next week! Happy drama time!
Cheers
Sid MARCH 2010 - Apparently, before the year 1752, March was the first month of the year. So in honour of this, I have made and am eating another Christmas cake. Also, on this month in history (this is beginning to sound like a bad radio show) Julius Caesar was murdered and the football league was invented by Aston Villa, although the two events are unlikely to be connected. Alexander Graham Bell (known affectionately as 'Ding-dong to his closest friends - see "Eureka! Eureka! - Inventions and discoveries through the ages!") invented the telephone. If he had invented a second telephone at the same time, his invention would have taken off a lot sooner! Can you tell I don't have much to write about!!! The featured play is a Sherlock Holmes mystery which should have them rolling about in the aisles, especially if you play the Crossroads theme at the end. I am adding a play soon about evacuated children in WWII. Be seeing you. Cheers Sid
APRIL 2010
Golly gosh, months come round quickly when you have to write a news blog. Just as you're letting the printer ink dry on the one for March then its 'All Fools day' and hundreds of kids keep telling you your laces are undone and think its funny and clever. WELL IT'S NOT, OK! If only I could outwit them! I would like to write a play about April Fools but I can't imagine that there would be many windows of opportunity for a performance. Anyway, there's a new playlet (featured download below) about children evacuated during WWII called 'Goodnight Mr Hitler' which is quite fun if you want a historical sketch or two. Thanks to people who are letting me know about their performances. I am setting up a links page soon to list all those other site who have been kind enough to feature bytheriverside.co.uk on their pages. If you have any thoughts or suggestions about the website, then please email me with them. There's no prize but I might write back and say 'Thank you' or 'Don't be silly' or 'Visit a doctor immediately'
Cheers
Sid
May 2010 - Instead of gathering nuts, why not download a few and try a taster of 'Riddle in the dark - a hobbit adventure' in the studio or classroom. Only 3 parts but good fun for small groups to read as a radio play (you could get others to add really cool sound effects like Gollum blowing his nose or the sound of Bilbo's foot hair growing!) Thanks again to people giving me feedback on use of the plays and performances - even some from the other side of the world (Cool!) I am busy sending my first children's comic novel, "King Cody's Clocks" off to publishers at the moment. No luck yet though, I'm up to about 12 rejections (I'm aiming for at least 35!!) and am finishing off my second children's novel, 'The Grandad Conspiracy', which is taking up all my spare time and causing me to grow facial hair. I have added a links page for, amazingly, 'links' to other sites for teaching resources that have kindly featured www.bytheriverside.co.uk on their pages. It is still being constructed so there are plenty of 'missing links' at the moment. Anyway, must go and make a tenth cup of tea for today! May the fourth be with you next Tuesday! (childish joke!!!) Cheers Sid June 2010 So sorry for being late with this, don't know what came over me! Been very busy! Too busy to write in sentences! Sound like Yoda, I do. Or is that Yozzer! Anyway, I've written a sketch based on the programme 'Dragon's Den' which I am using in a show now (right this minute in fact) so I will post it next month probably. Still had no takers on my first 'novelette'! Might just have to put it up here for free! I can't remember whether 'Girl in da Hoodie' has been a featured download before, but I have put it in again as it seems really popular at the moment. Must do another traditinal tale. Maybe 3 little pigs? Anyway, going to sleep now til July and turn into a winged insect!
Cheers
Sid
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