Exactly 364 years before I'd be performing in a merry musical about social change, it seems Samuel Pepys was making merry music to celebrate imminent social change.

Uncanny...?

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#PepysDiary #PepysHouseDiaries #SamuelPepys #PepysBlog

Great #storytelling involves a 2-way dialogue between teller & listener. But can you write a tale for others to tell? Can you lead that dialogue without being in the room...?

That's what I'm exploring w/WRiTEON Cambridge this coming Thursday! Join this 2hr workshop to discover...

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Genuinely despicable. $>:-(

#edutwitter , here's an opportunity for you to pick up on the techniques I use to attract 100% engagement from my #storytelling audiences, regardless of the genre or subject of the story...

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The week just gone: anniversary, automation angst, and A&E...

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#PepysHouseDiaries #PepysHouseBrampton Honorable mention: David Ault

This week's All The Better blog is one I hope will especially help anyone on #edutwitter who's ever asked their learners to adapt a story, e.g. those trying the Innovation stage of #TalkForWriting '... $;-)

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#teaching #literacy #WritingForPleasure

SO stoked to be part of this show...!

If you don't already have tickets, hope you have the Tuesday or Thursday evening free – those're the only days with seats left...!

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Pied Pipers ADC Theatre

5 star reviews are awesome, but feel even mAWEsome when it's a book I worked on with another storyteller – in this case, the vibrantly vivacious PaulineStories!

Check 👇 for a discount code on the book, if ye donae have it yeet. $;-)

Looked up during a meeting in my 'office' today (formerly the dairy) and discovered Pepys House is actually the end of the rainbow...!

Maybe Sam's gold is still buried nearby after all... $;-)

#PepysHouseBrampton #PepysHouseDiaries #EndOfTheRainbow

The latest read from Storyteller Chip and Korky Paul is here, and it's a big one...

Two GIANT ones, in fact!

Get your copy before they're all gobbled up...!

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#kidsbooks #readingforpleasure

As this week’s Pepys House Diary marks 10 years of Ermma and me knowing each other exist, there are wings in our hearts – but also wings in the hearth...

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#PepysHouseBrampton #PepysHouseDiaries

364 years ago this week, Samuel Pepys finally learned why Lord Monagu had brought him onboard a naval vessal...

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#PepysHouseBrampton #SamuelPepys #PepysHouseDiaries #Substack

The latest The Rest Is Politics Leading is an important wake-up call on #ClimateAction , but I desperately want to ask Prof Dieter Helm CBE, Rory Stewart & ALASTAIR CAMPBELL: If we need to calculate our individual carbon consumption, how do we do that?

Like, how should we tackle limescale?

I had maHOOsive fun at West Ham Church of England Primary School! It's always great when the staff are as engaged as their learners. $:-) That's when you know the children are sure to enjoy all the educational benefits of #storytelling – such as increased academic attainment. $;-)

I know Sue Atkins 👶🏽👧📱🎧📚 is using this cartoon to make an important point about how modern children can become over reliant on screen tech, but it also shows how screens may soon be the only way they can access elements of nature their parents' reliance on fossil fuels has eroded...

In a pub 2min from the spot where we first glimpsed each other, celebrating exactly 10 years of being in each other's lives. $:-)

#bringbackthebigbook and you'll definitely bring more #ReadingForPleasure into your #school ...! $:-D

#edutwitter

Tito's found a new cat flap – at the top of the wisteria!

Clever Kitten. $;-)

And to think last year he was fighting for his life after a car smashed his pelvis. Thank you Celia Hammond!

Bonus alliteration: cat climbs creeping plant, producing feline flap from the fenêtre.