{"id":37,"date":"2025-04-15T11:49:17","date_gmt":"2025-04-15T10:49:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost:8888\/wordpresstandt\/?page_id=37"},"modified":"2025-05-14T14:44:59","modified_gmt":"2025-05-14T13:44:59","slug":"about","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/tidesandtimes.co.uk\/index.php\/about\/","title":{"rendered":"About"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-group has-global-padding is-layout-constrained wp-block-group-is-layout-constrained\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-group is-layout-flow wp-block-group-is-layout-flow\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-group is-nowrap is-layout-flex wp-container-core-group-is-layout-f66f9956 wp-block-group-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-group alignwide has-global-padding is-layout-constrained wp-block-group-is-layout-constrained\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image alignwide size-medium\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"215\" height=\"300\" src=\"https:\/\/tidesandtimes.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Annie-small-215x300.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-274\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tidesandtimes.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Annie-small-215x300.jpeg 215w, https:\/\/tidesandtimes.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Annie-small-734x1024.jpeg 734w, https:\/\/tidesandtimes.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Annie-small-768x1072.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/tidesandtimes.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Annie-small.jpeg 816w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 215px) 100vw, 215px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-large-font-size\"><strong>About Annie<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-group has-global-padding is-layout-constrained wp-block-group-is-layout-constrained\">\n<p class=\"has-small-font-size\">You never leave the land and people who made you; deep roots tug from distance, across oceans and draw you back again and again. <br><br>My maternal great-grandfather built churches in Bridlington. In the Priory, there is a plaque commending him for a life \u2018well lived.\u2019 My grandfather was the engineer on the Bridlington life boat but kept me \u2018safe in feathers\u2019 so I knew nothing of the terrors of high seas, darkness and drowning. Bridlington is in my bones. <br><br>But life drew me to the USA where I married, earned an MFA from Brandeis University and worked for many years as Professor of Theatre at The Boston Conservatory.<br><br> That life also includes, two daughters, four grandchildren and a husband of fifty years with whom I live on the south coast of Massachusetts and where I walk, write, weave and garden.<br><br>It is a blessing and a loss, this life in another country. Writing helps to keep me in two places at once.<br><br>Distances are indeed \u2018all and nothing.\u2019<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-group is-layout-flow wp-block-group-is-layout-flow\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-group is-nowrap is-layout-flex wp-container-core-group-is-layout-f66f9956 wp-block-group-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-group has-global-padding is-layout-constrained wp-block-group-is-layout-constrained\">\n<p class=\"has-small-font-size\">Mal Seddon (alias Markam Walker Tweed-Waveney) has used photography ever since his final year at school in the port-city of Kingston upon Hull. <br><br>He was accepted into Bradford Regional College of Art as a student in 1972 to pursue his interest in the medium graduating four years later older and wiser. <br><br>In more recent years circumstances have found him living in a suburb of a large, land-locked city in the Midlands, distanced far from any coastal estuary or beach. <br><br>He has always missed not living within close reach of the sea and at times, it shows.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-group alignwide has-global-padding is-layout-constrained wp-block-group-is-layout-constrained\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image alignwide size-medium\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" src=\"https:\/\/tidesandtimes.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/malsmall-225x300.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-273\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tidesandtimes.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/malsmall-225x300.jpeg 225w, https:\/\/tidesandtimes.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/malsmall-768x1024.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/tidesandtimes.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/malsmall-1152x1536.jpeg 1152w, https:\/\/tidesandtimes.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/malsmall-1536x2048.jpeg 1536w, https:\/\/tidesandtimes.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/malsmall-scaled.jpeg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-large-font-size\"><strong>About Mal<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-group is-layout-flow wp-block-group-is-layout-flow\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-group is-nowrap is-layout-flex wp-container-core-group-is-layout-f66f9956 wp-block-group-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-group alignwide has-global-padding is-layout-constrained wp-block-group-is-layout-constrained\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image alignwide size-medium\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" src=\"https:\/\/tidesandtimes.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/rodneysmall-300x200.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-272\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tidesandtimes.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/rodneysmall-300x200.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/tidesandtimes.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/rodneysmall-1024x683.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/tidesandtimes.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/rodneysmall-768x512.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/tidesandtimes.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/rodneysmall-1536x1025.jpeg 1536w, https:\/\/tidesandtimes.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/rodneysmall-2048x1366.jpeg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-large-font-size\"><strong>About Rodney<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-group has-global-padding is-layout-constrained wp-block-group-is-layout-constrained\">\n<p class=\"has-small-font-size\">Rodney Challis began doing journalism over fifty years ago during his student days. <br><br>Since then, Rodney has covered most things for national media, from human interest stories to dog racing and celebrity chitchat.<br><br>Commissions also took him inside the worlds of professional wrestling and horse racing. <br><br>He is a member of the British Guild of Beer Writers. <br><br>While considering himself a hardboiled writer, Rodney welcomes the opportunity to collaborate with his old pal and colleague, Mal Seddon, in this project that is all about memory and landscape.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>About Annie You never leave the land and people who made you; deep roots tug from distance, across oceans and draw you back again and again. My maternal great-grandfather built churches in Bridlington. 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