Category: Blog
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Print Offer!
24th January 2015 I don’t normally go in for a lot of marketing/publicity stuff, but today I am! I shall be offering a free, limited edition (1 of 50) A3 print to one of my Facebook page followers once I have reached 200 likes. I am 64 away from this at the moment and it…
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Reading Memories
2nd January 2015 Since I was 18, I have kept a notebook/diary of every book I have ever read – yes, every single one! Pre-18 I wasn’t a big reader, in fact, I read only when I had to, which were books we had to read at school, and a small handful of other books – Heidi,…
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17th December 2014
Diary of 2014 Yes, I’m feeling in a bit of a reflective mood. It’s that end of the year feeling where you look back at what’s been and assess it… was it a good year? Was it a bad one? Globally, I think it’s been pretty rubbish, worrying and desperately sad. But this is not…
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19th August 2014
A New Venture Yes, I have finally taken hold of this thing that I have been sitting on for far too long – the thing that involves paint and brushes and big canvases and quite a bit of mess and hours and hours of complete absorption and pleasure. It’s strange how even when we…
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15th July 2014
‘The Walk’ Time is a thing that can slip away easily or be filled with things that seem inadequate or unfulfilling. Aren’t we all trying to address that in some way? How often do we find ourselves doing things we have to do rather than things we want to do? It’s easy to fall into…
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23rd June 2014
What’s in a cover? An recent interesting conversation about book covers, led me to think about my own favourite book covers and whether they were influenced by my feelings about the book. The question asked was: ‘Do your favourite books have your favourite book cover? Or can the two be separated?’ It’s an interesting question because it…
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5th May 2014
The Grand Blog Tour! Firstly, I’d like to thank Jenny Alexander for inviting me to take part in the Grand Blog Tour this week. I’ve been following Jenny’s blog post for a couple of years – it’s one that I never fail to read as I find her posts thought-provoking and her observations inciteful. So, here’s…
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30th April 2014
A Surprising and Sparkly New Idea As those of you who read my last blog post here will know, my latest two children’s manuscripts have gone out into the big wide world of agents and I have been filling my time with lots of other things and giving the grey matter a bit of a…
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10th January 1914
My first poem of 2014 My poems are nearly always spontaneous things and my poetry muse can be fast and furious or go on vacation for months. Regardless of which, I set up a ‘Poems (insert year)’ folder every year and by the end of each year have normally amassed quite a few. This one came…
