Nearly a week off, after the end of the January blogging challenge, and I find my fingers are itching to put a new post together. I have a very good…
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Day 31, end of the UBC, 31st day of the year and my 31st blog post of 2013. Wow, glad I made it! I thought I’d have a little ponder…
It’s day 30, out of 31, of the UBC challenge which means this is the 30th post I have written this year. Enough to make you think I don’t have…
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,…
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…