After a successful career as a talent agent – representing Michael Parkinson, Ulrika Jonsson and Adam Ant – Melanie Cantor became disillusioned with TV. So she took up writing – and refused to give up on her passion. Sign up for Well Actually: a free weekly newsletter about health and wellnessAt 61, after a decade writing four unpublished manuscripts and receiving hundreds of rejections from agents and publishers, Melanie Cantor got an email in 2019 from the literary agent Felicity Blunt. “It...
As retirement approached, Nancy Beiman wanted to do something creative. Before long she was sketching out the story of a very unusual blended family When Nancy Beiman was 65 and contemplating retirement from her job as a professor of animation, she had no clue as to how she would fill her days. “Many people take up an artistic hobby. But what was I, a professional artist, supposed to do? Take up accounting?” Before she could embark on a crash course in spreadsheets, she woke up one morning with...
Emma, the “grandad on the moon” author, created her story after losing her dad last year. Emma struggled to explain her dad's passing to her 3-year-old son. I started saying the generic “Grandads in the sky now”. His response was “is grandad on the moon”. I knew I had to create a book then, to help other young children. I wanted my book to be enjoyable for younger readers, so I tried to avoid being negative and sad. My son used to talk about the different adventures his grandad was having on the...
Plans to upgrade the car park of a much-loved visitor attraction have been given the green light by borough development bosses. South Tyneside Council’s planning department has approved an application for the Souter Lighthouse complex off the Coast Road between South Shields and Whitburn. The National Trust, which manages the heritage site, lodged an application last year for permission to improve the popular car park near the lighthouse complex. According to a design and access statement...
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Mojang just released a new Minecraft Bedrock update on all supported platforms bringing in the Armadillo mob, new wolf variants, Realms Stories, and more. This update, patch 1.20.
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Some such as Netflix star Mindy Kaling , her Suits co-star Abigail Spencer and parenting campaigner Kelly McKee Zajfen took to social media, sharing pictures of the preserve.