I’ve been doing my writer-girl-group homework every day since last Wednesday and I’ve learned some interesting stuff. It’s very freeing to just sit and type for 15 minutes or so,…
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Did you see Dr Miriam Stoppard on Sky News this morning? She is publicising a book so may well have appeared on other sofas as well. The book is about…
Did you watch the tennis? I needed a rest so committed to watch all of it, although it was a tad stressful! I don’t play but I’m a big tennis…
When I started thinking about this post while walking Alfie today, I thought that it had nothing to do with writing or with worry. But I wanted to write about…
This post wrote itself, really, on the way to my yoga class today, and I chose the photo because it feels really calm. It’s a calm place, the marshes where…
Well, today has been exciting. We had the first of six conference calls in a group for women writing books, led by Lisa Lister whom I started working with about…
Today I’ve been reading about Wilko Johnson, Dr Feelgood guitarist and fellow Essex dweller, who has been diagnosed with terminal cancer and has only months to live. He has decided…
This subject keeps popping into my head so I thought I had better see what it looks like when it comes out of my head and on to paper. The…
This post isn’t really anything to do with dogs, walking or snow, but this is where I get my inspiration from a lot of the time. And today, on this…
This picture isn’t from this year, it’s from three years ago when Alfie had first come to live with us. But too cute not to share! We don’t have this…
While most of the country is covered in snow and some of it is on red alert, we are still waiting for the hazardous conditions to reach us here. It’s…