I have been writing since I was very young and now I go to Brighton Families Unemployed Centre on a Monday with Tony Spiers. My sincere thanks to Bridget Whelan for all her encouragement and for her imput in the Tarner History Project as without her I would not have been so inspired to write the Washerwoman which is a song really but i still need to write the music. Since I was 50 I have discovered that I am dyslexic but that has made me more determined to write and write Now I am writing a feature film and am intrigued at the process of writing it. My thanks to our tutor Julie Everton A great teacher and is so good at giving us confidence to carry on this mamoth task.
Here is an example of my writings from way back in the 1980’s I am proud because my mum would have seen this piece of writing. The picture is of a very good clown friend called Jo Jo from Denmark
The Clown
By Susi Oddball (1985) 
The bare face is reflected in a mirror
What looks back at me?
Is it the real image
There are lines under the eyes, around the nose
And curved creases around the mouth
Evidence of much experience
Of pain, trials, tribulations and joy
The body is beginning to sag
Against the baggy trousers.
The braces are holding the clown up
The shirt patterns of the past
Still promising beauty and colour.
A sparkling hat enclosing the clown’s mind
A protection for the shell, housing many thoughts
The base white is carefully covering the person
But with careful consideration to bring out a personality
The clown’s personage
The even stroke of the paint brush
Wiping out the lines of experience
But producing a youthfulness
Clear, steady smiling lips
Creating an image of lightness, colour and fun
Who knows what lies behind in the image
Only the clown can know
