The Tiny Voice Talks Blog

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Reawakening the Diarist within me

My diarist has woken up after been in a coma for decades. All thanks to Dr Lucy Kelly and a chat I had with her on the podcast. Find out how

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#DailyWritingChallenge: Peace

Many years ago, I went for a weekend break in Ludlow and found myself sitting in St. Laurence’s Church. For anyone who knows me, this...

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#DailyWritingChallenge: Happiness

I was always a person who sought happiness and yet it eluded me a great deal of the time. I believed that if I had that bag, that...

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#DailyWritingChallenge: Humour

If you have spent any time with me at all, you will know that being happy is incredibly important to me. I love laughter and having fun...

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#DailyWritingChallenge: Roots

I was born in Sussex, England but in my eyes, I have Northern Irish blood flowing through my veins and I am incredibly proud of this. Mum...

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#DailyWritingChallenge: Hope

Some of you may remember Christopher Reeve as the original Superman back in the 1970s and 1980s – others of you won’t. He was the first...

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#DailyWritingChallenge: Rebellion

When I saw the word ‘rebellion’ in the #Daily WritingChallenge I thought Hannah had gone wrong. How could rebellion be good? How could...

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#DailyWritingChallenge: Authenticity

I’m going to start with a confession – I am useless at reading people and always have been. Here’s another – when you meet me, you meet...

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#DailyWritingChallenge: Dreams

It has always been a dream of mine to be a writer and never in my wildest imagination did I believe that anyone would read, let alone...

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#DailyWritingChallenge: Curiosity

I am an incredibly curious soul and it does cause me to get involved in anything and everything just because I want to know more. Take...

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#DailyWritingChallenge: Wisdom

What is wisdom? the quality of having experience, knowledge and good judgement. thinking and acting using knowledge, experiences,...

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#DailyWritingChallenge: Love

When I was little I created a club called the ‘Love is… Club’ dedicated to the cartoons by Kim Casali. I used to love opening up the...

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#DailyWritingChallenge: Perseverance

Did you know that Albert Einstein was not able to speak until he was four years old and his teachers said he would ‘never amount to...

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#DailyWritingChallenge: Creativity

I haven’t done much writing this week because I began to question my creative writing and whether it was okay. I started to compare it to...

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#DailyWritingChallenge: Change

For some reason as soon as I thought of the word change, I was reminded of the book ‘The Owl who was Afraid of the Dark.’ Plop (the baby...

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#DailyWritingChallenge ~ Wellbeing

This morning, when flicking through Instagram, I came across a post from the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge. This post was entitled ‘Every...

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#DailyWritingChallenge: Flexibility

The most important physical property of earthquake-safe buildings and structures is flexibility. Rigid structures would crumble and...

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#DailyWritingChallenge: Trust

If you are a regular reader of my blog you will know that two months ago I set up #TinyVoiceTuesday. This was born out of frustration as...

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#DailyWritingChallenge: Purpose

Did you know that every living creature on this planet has a purpose? Take the small remora fish – in exchange for temporary room and...

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#DailyWritingChallenge: Growth

For me, the life of a teacher is that of growth. Educational research is ever evolving and we have to evolve with it, if we want to give...