Dreams and Nightmares
What do you dream about? What is your worst nightmare? My good friend and sometimes co-conspirator Alison May has a new book out – Midsummer Dreams. To celebrate, she’s holding a world-wide
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Imperfect poetry
Tread softly because you tread on my dreams – W.B. Yeats (1865–1939) It’s a phrase quoted to me many years ago by a teacher – and I have never forgotten it. The imagery
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On Tour with The Wild One
It sounds like a rock concert tour doesn’t it – but I’m referring to all the fun I’ve been having on the book tour. This isn’t a tour that involves planes and
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A sudden diversion in time
It had to happen one day. Regular readers of this blog know I am a bit of a history buff and spend as much time as I can climbing over ruined castles,
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Supermarket as a tourist hot spot
I like to shop. That’s no great secret. I’m pretty good at it too (even if I do say so myself). And I love to shop in unusual places. I’ve just returned
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More books I've been reading
It’s such a joy to go back to a favourite book and rediscover it. I did that recently with The Thorn Birds. Re-reading a long-time favourite after many years can be disappointing.
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Wool seen from the other side
It will come as no surprise to regular visitors to this blog, but for those who don’t know – I am a knitter. I enjoy it so much, I made the heroine
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Been there, seen them, got the T-shirt
I was in a fashion scrum this week – struggling in a crowd to get my hands on the latest designs… not, not shoes. T-shirts. Specifically a Lynyrd Skynyrd concert T-shirt. The
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Fun or hard work? A bit of both.
I love writing retreats – it’s just fabulous to be able to focus entirely on my writing and ignore all the cares of the world. Of course, the companionship of other writers
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A very big hole in the ground
I like holes in the ground. The bigger the better! Whether it’s a cave or a mine, I like going underground, even more so when there’s a sense of history attached. My