• 9th December

    Taking the plunge I’ve thought quite a lot about how I became a writer, because it wasn’t something I aspired to be for a long time.  I had quite a lot of jobs, not loads, but a few.  After leaving school, I worked in a hospital preparing microfiche and locating medical records. It was pretty soul destroying.  Then…

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  • 2nd December

    A Lorra Crazy Letters If you read my post of 4th November on the launch of Grub’s Pups, you may have noticed that I referred to a letter that I read out to everyone.  In fact, there were two of these – The Sunflower letter, and The Mushy Peas letter – and they form just…

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  • 28th November

    MOJO In a break from my normal Friday blogette… a bit of a spontaneous five minute poem, prompted by that post being unwell, and looking after other unwell ones,  feeling, where the old mojo appears to have gone walk about, and also sparked by a twitter conversation. MOJO My mojo is a bran flake down the back of…

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  • 25th November

    The spaces we make As most of you will already know, we creative types / workers from home, quite often have to make do with what we have, don’t we?  We carve our own spaces in our home environment, working around the rest of the family members in some cases, working out the things we most need, taking…

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  • 19th November

    Liebster Blog Award I’ve just been awarded my first blog award (tee hee) – isn’t it pretty? I was awarded this by YA writer Emma Pass, whose blog you can see here.  So thank you very much Emma for this lovely award, so gratefully received. Liebster is a German word meaning dearest, and the award…

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  • 18th November

    My first guest blog! I thought it’d be nice to have guest bloggers on my wee blog sometimes, and today is my first!  My partner in crime today is Duncan Pass, husband of YA author Emma Pass, and printer, painter and artiste extraordinaire.  You know that feeling when you look at a painting or piece of…

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  • 11th November

    Buried Treasures Hearing Voices vol. 4 Buried Treasures, the title of this blog, is also the title of a poem I’ve just had published (oh yes oh yes oh yes) in Hearing Voices Volume 4, a magazine put together by Crystal Clear Creators based in Leicestershire.  To say I am overjoyed is an understatement, especially…

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  • 4th November

    Launching Grub’s Pups Okay, so the date for publication of Grub’s Pups was closing in on me, and I had this idea… why don’t I have a book launch?  Then I had this other idea… no, let’s not, too scary.  I’ve been here before you see, and talked myself out of the thing.  I’ve just…

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  • 28th October

    Every picture tells a story I am a picture person. I used to love to draw and paint, still do if I ever get time.  But what is in my head doesn’t translate as well as I’d like and other people always do it soooo much better than I can.   So I am kind of in…

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  • 21st October

    What inspires you? This is going to be more of a woody photo gallery blog  this week… with a bit of wordy stuff thrown in for good measure. I’m a bit of a tree fanatic, and have been for as long as I can remember.  I’m not sure if I am, in some way, genetically disposed to…

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