A love/hate thing…
I woke up the other morning – and saw a few leaves falling from the tree in my back garden. It was also a tad chilly. Not cold – just chilly.
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Simply messing about…
Rat (Ratty to his friends) was so right … There is nothing — absolutely nothing — half so much worth doing as simply messing about in boats … I read the
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A fright at the museum…
I love museums – they’re fascinating places full of really really old and interesting things. They house ancient statues and primitive tools – the riches of long dead Kings – that
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Who was at Hoo?
It’s really strange to suddenly find yourself in the midst of one of your old school text books. Even in Australia we were taught about Sutton Hoo – the burial mounds
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Guilty Pleasures
It’s that time of the year again… and the other day I found myself humming the theme song from Summer Holiday – you know – the old film starring Cliff Richard…
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The ghost at the crossroads…
I love a ghost story. And a legend. And music. So it was inevitable that while in the American south on holidays, I should go in search of the ghost of
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Battle of the books…
My TBR (to be read) pile is growing – it has expanded to a second shelf in the bookcase – that’s a bit strange for someone who buys most of her
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Its all about the place and time.
I was at the fabulous RNA conference last weekend – where I delivered a workshop on how to use settings more effectively in a book. My workshop was at 9 AM
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288 milion visitors can't be wrong
This week, I had the absolute pleasure of spending some time at the Wellington Library , near Telford in Shropshire. The event was a readers and writers day held in conjunction
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Elvis is in the building…
I can remember the day Elvis died. I was a teenager, the most junior reporter at a TV news station in Australia. When the news broke, my boss immediate scheduled the