Jan Jack | Perfect Verse

So..what would YOU have done..?

This year, I was invited to provide the Christmas entertainment at a large networking event. It was a lovely event and I was blessed to see smiling faces all around me. Well..almost all around me. Because there’s always an exception isn’t there? Have you noticed that? The whole room might be laughing their socks off, but there will be one person looking at you as though you’ve just recovered something particularly nasty from the bottom of their wash bin. You can’t escape it. A year ago, when I first started after dinner speaking, I performed at a ladies golf club. They asked me for something a little risque. Fine by me. Risque I can do! I started my poetry/storytelling and all was going well. Until my eyes alighted on three...

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The saddest Perfect Verse…

In 1986 I formed a friendship at work, with a man I shall call Tom. It was a platonic friendship. A wonderful supportive friendship that sprang from shared humour and a sense of the ridiculous. We kept in touch over the years, long after we’d both ceased working for the firm. In 1995 I separated from my first husband. Tom had separated from his wife shortly before this. We were both going through a tough time and metaphorically held each others hands. Eventually we both remarried. His new wife, whom I shall call Sue, was lovely. They set up a cosy family home together; Tom forged strong relationships with Sue’s children. He was so happy. And so proud of his gorgeous wife. When she had a stroke at the age of 55 his world came crashing down...

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Reaching Out

Welcome to my blog. Have you noticed that sometimes the most difficult lessons we ever learn are the ones we remember the most? This post is dedicated to a lady who taught me something very important when I was just sixteen years old. The Power of Words As a little girl I would often perch on John’s wall while he tended his plants. He was a big man; as warm as the sun which crept over his house, to touch on the rows of nodding flowers he looked after so lovingly. He would tease me, asking gentle questions about school, and magically finding laughter in every subject. I would wistfully imagine what life would be like if he was my father. I often remember him leaning on his spade, and coaxing a robin on to his hand with a little square of...

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A warm hello from Perfect Verse

Welcome to my blog. On here you will find case studies, personal experiences, and funny stories, whatever I might feel about writing about. Please feel free to comment. But play nicely...

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Wedding Speeches

Are you feeling overwhelmed about writing and delivering a funny, warm wedding speech? Let me turn your obligation into a pleasure As a comedy writer and poet I capture your memories and weave your story into witty sensitive wedding verse, as seen through your eyes, and written from YOUR heart – and avoiding all those wedding speech clichés that you hear too often. I commissioned Jan to write a bridegroom’s speech for me. A woman came up to me afterwards and said it was the best bridegroom’s speech she’d ever heard. I had them laughing, I had them crying. They were in the palm of my hand, thanks to Jan. Paul, Hampshire My...

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