'We need to cry as much as we need to laugh'

We sat down with Louise Wallwein MBE

Dear Millers — for today’s members’ newsletter, Dani meets a woman who lives in Hulme and has quite an extraordinary life story. The poet and playwright Louise Wallwein was adopted by a family as a baby and entered the care system aged nine after the family broke down. She spent her teenage years being shuttled between more than a dozen care homes, including being looked after by nuns in Didsbury. “The nuns were dead nice to me,” she tells Dani in a lovely interview. Enjoy.

A quick reminder that we have a members’ Facebook group called Millers Talk for those of you who use Facebook and would enjoy the occasional bit of discussion about our stories, other stories we should cover and which bird feeds are recommended at particular times of the year. Join up by clicking here (and just wait while we let you in). Recently we based a piece of reporting on a suggestion from one of our Millers in the group, and it’s a nice sounding board for us when we are planning our coverage too.

Finally, l…