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With the Cookbook Club at Chapter One proving popular, cookbooks have been on my mind here, with thoughts like ‘ Are they a wanton extravagance with so many recipes online in various forms?’ and ‘But isn’t it joyous to flick through a cookbook at your leisure, enjoying photos, assessing ingredients and imagining pleasure from the…
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In this fascinating session, Lorna encouraged we writers to consider senses beyond the usual sight, sense, taste, touch, hearing. She introduced interoception: our internal messages between brain and organs like of hunger, temperature and pain. She described our vestibular sense of movement and balance, and proprioception, or how our body relates to and in the…
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Our second Writing For Wellbeing workshop was on nature writing – a joyous and inspiring subject to write about in Pembrokeshire. Lorna brought a small tree to the session, some rain, river and sea water, sand, shale, pebbles and mud. We gave these focussed attention and wrote about the feelings they inspired, using all our…
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Our first Local Writing For Wellbeing session got off to an uplifting start last Tuesday, with seven most interesting writers in the room. As Chapter One bookshop is in a museum, workshop leader Lorna took the theme of us as writers, being our own different types of museums, with different specializations and different moods. Object…
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Thanks to those of you who’ve already booked, and we’re just a week away here from the start of our Writing For Wellbeing series of workshops. So we’ve been raiding the shelves in the bookshop for inspiration and ideas. For those of you who don’t know Narberth, it’s a small and most charming market town…
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‘One of the best ways to learn is to have a Welsh-speaking lover who cannot speak English. Otherwise read publications in Welsh, watch Welsh tv, listen to Welsh radio … Start your reading with children’s comics and children’s books. You need to be voracious. You must make yourself a sponge. Bit by bit it will come.’…
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At Chapter One bookshop, we’re thrilled to host our first series of Local Writing For Wellbeing workshops, thanks to support from Literature Wales. Here’s what Lorna, workshop leader, has to say about them: Storytelling is an important part of our lives. Whether keeping a diary, telling a friend about something that happened to us or…
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The Love Book Bar recently explored traditional Welsh love practices, highlighting the unique Arberth Valentine card from Narberth. This design, featuring decorative elements and love verses, preceded the mass production of Valentine’s cards in the 19th century. Pembrokeshire also has distinctive love spoons, each symbolizing love and commitment.
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Our parent organisation, Narberth Museum, is looking for an Operations Manager.
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