Ted Hughes’s birthday dinner

Vintage shopping!

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Getting ready for dinner in honor of Ted Hughes (former poet laureate)

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25 people for dinner in the upstairs room at Stubbings Wharf. 

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Guest speaker was Tony Buzan,(who developed mind mapping), long-time friend of Ted Hughes  . . . and 

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Tony Buzan on the right

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 . .  .Lorraine Gill, Australian artist extraordinaire  and former friend of Ted Hughes. I’m sitting next to Julia, ice skater and a former professor of English Literature at Bradford University.

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Lorraine and I talked about her upbringing just outside Alice Springs in the Australian Outback and her trips to Uluru (Ayres Rock) with Aborigine guides. I think my composition entitled ‘Uluru’ from my ‘Outback’ collection would go well with her paintings. 

1 Comment

  1. deakin599

    Hi Heather, thanks for the lovely pic – and the promotion! (I was a mere lecturer at Bradford, not alas a professor. (In fact for some years I have identified myself primarily as a poet.)
    Enjoying looking through your blog & website. Hope all goes well in Calderdale.

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