Janet and John on Holidays: Ch 1 – The First Big Bang
So –Janet and John take a holiday (vacation for my American friends) and where do we go? The middle of nowhere of course…. But not just any nowhere. A radioactive nowhere
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The accidental knitter
A funny thing happened a couple of months ago – I became a knitter. It started like this…. I was in Canada, looking for a birthday present for a friend of mine
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To boldly go… errr… go boldly?
Here’s a bit of a confession – I am a Science Fiction nut. (OK – the Twilight Zone Blog back in November was probably a bit of a hint). It’s therefore not
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Some things you never grow out of…
I’m currently writing a section of my new book set at an outback race meeting, and a thought occurred to me… every book I’ve written has horses in it somewhere. I decided
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Happy Holidays
Merry Christmas everyone … And may 2012 be FAB-U-LOUS for you and those you love. Janet XX
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If heaven is a library….
At a recent event, I was lucky enough to hear a reading from Audrey Niffenegger – author of The Time Traveler’s Wife. She read a short story – written in response to
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A short stop in the Twilight Zone.
On a weekend excursion into upstate New York, we stopped for lunch at a small town called Binghamton. It was an unremarkable town, in which we ate a reasonable but unremarkable lunch.
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Under Northern Lights
Imagine sitting in a tiny cottage, snowbound in a winter where the sun never peeks over the horizon – and a book lets you escape into the sweltering heat of the
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A master class in story-telling.
In a small bar in lower Manhattan last night, an Australian singer-songwriter showed me just what great story telling is all about. Paul Kelly has written a lot of songs in the
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Not getting arrested is fun too…
…or what I did on my vacation, Part 2 I’ve always found the story of the Manhattan project fascinating – this ultra-secret project developed on an isolated plateau in New Mexico. It