Tour Rescheduled.

Hello.

The I Will Pay One Pound For Your Story tour is being rescheduled for September.

Sorry if you were really excited about it. You'll just have to wait.

But, to make it up to you, have a gander at this:

This lady was in her eighties. I heart Lewisham.

Back soon.
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Richard

Right I was in Iraq in 1992, yeah, in Kuwait and then my friend hit a land mine and blew up. And I’ve had, err, traumatised by it and I, err, got discharged from it for two years, I was in the army for five years, erm. That’s it really. I don’t know what to say, I made Lance Corporal rank. Uhm. Terrible really, his name was Sonny and errm. Yeah it’s a while back now but, it’s quite a mad thing to see when his legs get blown up. They went over me and that, they went, one of his legs landed over me. 

As heard on BBC Radio Wales! / Fel Glywir ar BBC Radio Cymru!

Siaradwyr y Gymraeg:


Y mae'n bleser i gadarhau manylion y twr genedlaethol o Byddaf Yn Talu Punt Am Eich Stori fel glywir ar BBC Radio Cymru gyda Kate Crockett neithiwr (wedi methu hi? Fi hefyd, na phoener. Gallwch wrando eto yma. Gwych 'de?).

Dwi'n gobeithio gallu casglu straeon yn y Gymraeg yn Wrecsam a Gaerdydd, felly lledwch y gair.

Mi fyddaf yn aros yng Ngaeredin trwy gydol y gwyl, felly fydd yn bosib fy ngweld yn dal y murlen yno.

Gadewch neges yma os oes gwestiynnau gennych, neu os hoffwch wneud apwyntiad.

Mae hyn yn mynd i fod yn hwyl, allaf ddweud.

Diolch,

Michelle

Speakers of the English:


I'm very excited to announce details of my national tour of I Will Pay One Pound For Your Story as heard on BBC Radio Wales with Kate Crockett last night (missed it? That's ok, I did too. You can listen again here. Isn't technology marvellous?).

I will add further dates in London for June / July so stay tuned and spread the word. I will be in Edinburgh for the festival so may whip out the placard there too, so keep your eyeballs peeled.

Get in touch if you have any questions or queries or if you'd like to make a appointment.

I'm excited.

Cheers,

Michelle

Dyddiadau Twr / Tour Dates


Gorffenaf / July

25: Bryste / Bristol
26: Caerdydd / Cardiff
30: Wrecsam / Wrexham
31: Manceinion / Manchester

Awst / August

2: Caeredin /  Edinburgh

Joan

I was a school teacher for sixteen years. I played the circle time and I tried to understand that, that the children knew that their parents had a name, you know Janet, John, whatever, not mum and dad so I always say “what’s your mummy called?” So I asked this little boy “what’s your daddy called?” and he went “Bastard!” And I went “No what does your mummy call your daddy?” “Bastard!” So that’s one of my stories from my children because children, I taught for 16 years, very funny stories, that was one that I’ll never forget. 

Bridget

Basically it was the 8^th of March of 2011, and my sister brought a video about a story about a girl who went to heaven and hell, like she walked into heaven and walked into hell, and basically that video touched me and touched my heart, and from that day I changed the way I live and breathe, now I, don’t swear anymore, I behave, like, like a Christian and I believe more in God and I include God in my life, it’s really helping me and also, I also preach the word to my friends and they’re now following the way I’m following God. It’s true that heaven is there, from that video I really understood that God is really there. God, he’s, he’s not like a fake God, people say that, oh, that God is only a tradition that but he’s really here and, eeerrr anyway when I saw this video I knew it was the truth, when I saw that video I also, like, changed my interest to find out what God wants from my life and, err, and on the 8^th of March 2011 it was the best thing to ever happen to me. I was born again and my life changed completely. Now I’m walking in the way of God and I want to know more about what I have to do in order to get to heaven. Sorry, can I just tell you a bit more? After seeing that video of the testimony I started seeing something was happening. I started realizing all my sins that day and I was repenting in my mind and I was really feeling hot and I was crying inside me and then started crying, crying and crying and I’d go into my room and I’d cry and ask God for forgiveness because I really don’t want to disobey his word and to walk in a bad, like, path, because I really want to go to heaven, and I know that hell is real and heaven is real. I was repenting and the feeling inside me was unbelievable, like, how I was behaving and, like, and now, like, people who knew me when I was, like, an unworthy person don’t believe me, I’m now still Bridget because, and I think in a different way and I believe, uhm, say to people that they have to try to get near God because it’s the only solution to have everlasting life. 

Hassan and Omar

Our family, originally they were from Jordan, Jordan, Saudi Arabia and then they crossed the Red Sea and they came to Africa which, at that time, African natives were there only, that part of the world, and from then we started, that’s why we’re quite light, innit? I have blue eyes, thank you kindly ma'am, it’s because of age maybe. Well, I believe this is because of age, this ring becomes light. When I was younger I was exactly like his eyes, so they change huh. He’s my first son, I have four, yes, he’s the eldest.

*Hassan and Omar would not accept payment for their story.

Trevor.

I would like to tell my testimony of my route to coming to believe in God. Oh we’re, err, we’re rolling are we? Well I was pursuing a career, I was, err, doggedly pursuing a career and err, it wasn’t really  working out, and err, and err, at this point I took LSD, and err, unfortunately it lead me into a very, a very err, bad place, err, what’s known as a bad trip, but part of this bad trip, I actually err, had a vision, and I saw the words GOD it was written in white capital letters against a black background and err, I was err, it was accompanied by this severe, I can’t call it a pain but it was just err, a torturous  experience and my err, my feeling was that I was going to die, that I would not be able to withstand this, the pressure of this experience. Anyway I started having this, a feeling that I was moving towards of the letter O in the word GOD and as I was moving through it into the blackness it stopped as immediately as it started, getting worse and worse and I was believing that I couldn’t manage to cope with it anymore and then it stopped. From this point on, err I was, had err, a very great difficulty in keeping my life together, my head was spinning, I was probably, err, I was just sort of mad now, the drugs just sort of kick-started a madness for me, which I didn’t know, you know, if I was still having this bad trip on LSD or whether I was insane. Anyway. So everything was became very difficult and eventually I couldn’t manage to keep working anymore so I became homeless and err, at some point I started praying. I was coming to reconcile with the idea that I was finding God, but I was an atheist through and through and so, err, even though I’d seen this word God I wasn’t bringing it into myself that God existed. I was more and more encouraged by the idea that my life was being guided so I had this idea that there was this guiding force going on. Now you might assume that guiding force and God are the same thing but in my mind, and remember my mind was really collapsed in a fundamental state of disrepair at this point, I started believing that there was this force acting on my life and I had to, it was a question of I had to accept that really my life was going to be conducted along the paths that, err, this force was creating for me. I was going to ask where, what I should do at this point, I was homeless and I was on the south coast and I had two options, I could go right or left. Left would have been going to chase, err, an ex-girlfriend which would have been completely silly, it wouldn’t have worked at all, or right to Cornwall where my sister was living at the time. So I saw this woman down on the seafront, she was walking down the promenade, so I spoke to the force, I said look I’m going to go and ask this woman which way to go, so whatever word you put in her,  that’ll be the way to go. So off I go, I approached this woman who wasn’t at all, err, she was, err, she wasn’t surprised at all, she just accepted that I was coming to her and asking her the way, and she said yeah go that way, which was right, to Cornwall, to the west.