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About Me
Hello, I am Sally James. Thanks for visiting my web-site. I hope you enjoy my poetry. I have been writing for as long as I can remember. I have been published here and there in small press magazines and the Internet and also read on local radio. A few years ago most of my poems were written on the backs of used envelopes but now I am getting more organised (well trying to.)
As well as writing I do pastel and water colour painting and play the bongo drum and knit baby clothes and scarves but not all at the same time. Sometimes I am silly, mischievous and a grumpy old woman, sometimes dopey and sometimes as sharp as a needle but again not all at the same time. I like to be quiet and on my own but also like company. I am a mass of contradictions I suppose.
I have four children and umpteen grandchildren. Seventeen at the last count but soon to be eighteen and then nineteen. I have one great grand child. Sometimes I think if I had said no to my husband Trevor all those years ago all this would not have happened. Unfortunately he died nearly five years ago. He was a great man, swam the English Channel, most of the Lakes in England and some Lochs in Scotland. He would knit fantastic Norwegian sweaters, was a poet and musician playing every musical instrument I can think of but again not all at the same time. He was a socialist (old labour not new) always fighting for peoples rights, especially the underdog.
Which takes me to my pets. I have two dogs. A Doberman, Misha who is extremely loyal and loveable and for my sins, a Border Collie called Lassie who is not wired up right as my husband used to say. I also have a mouse that comes out at night and nibbles their food.
I was a nurse all of my working life and encouraged by my husband studied with the Open University in my fifties and gained a BA honours. Not bad for an eleven plus failure (twice). I then went on to do an MA in Creative writing at Bolton University.
I write when the mood takes me usually every day and have half written novels and an odd play (very odd) scattered here, there and everywhere along with reams of poetry.
I read my poems to anyone who will listen and have been guest poet at various venues in the north-west. I have helped children with poetry in schools and have found this very rewarding. I write humour and Lancashire dialect and sometimes I am called Saucy Sal. But I am not as saucy as I used to be (old age) and now write poetry on all topics including poems for children but mainly poems about love, loss and nature.
My ambition is to get a pamphlet published before my blood pressure gets too high and I leave this planet.
That is all for now. Many best wishes and love Sally
Hello, I am Sally James. Thanks for visiting my web-site. I hope you enjoy my poetry. I have been writing for as long as I can remember. I have been published here and there in small press magazines and the Internet and also read on local radio. A few years ago most of my poems were written on the backs of used envelopes but now I am getting more organised (well trying to.)
As well as writing I do pastel and water colour painting and play the bongo drum and knit baby clothes and scarves but not all at the same time. Sometimes I am silly, mischievous and a grumpy old woman, sometimes dopey and sometimes as sharp as a needle but again not all at the same time. I like to be quiet and on my own but also like company. I am a mass of contradictions I suppose.
I have four children and umpteen grandchildren. Seventeen at the last count but soon to be eighteen and then nineteen. I have one great grand child. Sometimes I think if I had said no to my husband Trevor all those years ago all this would not have happened. Unfortunately he died nearly five years ago. He was a great man, swam the English Channel, most of the Lakes in England and some Lochs in Scotland. He would knit fantastic Norwegian sweaters, was a poet and musician playing every musical instrument I can think of but again not all at the same time. He was a socialist (old labour not new) always fighting for peoples rights, especially the underdog.
Which takes me to my pets. I have two dogs. A Doberman, Misha who is extremely loyal and loveable and for my sins, a Border Collie called Lassie who is not wired up right as my husband used to say. I also have a mouse that comes out at night and nibbles their food.
I was a nurse all of my working life and encouraged by my husband studied with the Open University in my fifties and gained a BA honours. Not bad for an eleven plus failure (twice). I then went on to do an MA in Creative writing at Bolton University.
I write when the mood takes me usually every day and have half written novels and an odd play (very odd) scattered here, there and everywhere along with reams of poetry.
I read my poems to anyone who will listen and have been guest poet at various venues in the north-west. I have helped children with poetry in schools and have found this very rewarding. I write humour and Lancashire dialect and sometimes I am called Saucy Sal. But I am not as saucy as I used to be (old age) and now write poetry on all topics including poems for children but mainly poems about love, loss and nature.
My ambition is to get a pamphlet published before my blood pressure gets too high and I leave this planet.
That is all for now. Many best wishes and love Sally