Category: Blog

  • 25th April 2013

    Stilling the mind I sat in my car the other day – one of those school run moments, waiting to pick up my son, and sometimes the first time in the day when I get time to just sit – and I thought ~ I just want my head to be still, to stop chattering…

  • 16th March 2013

    Donating books to help children A very lovely lady called Rachel has recently contacted me.  She is a mum and volunteer librarian at Ystruth Primary School in Blaina, South Wales. The school is located in a deprived area where many children have never had the experience of visiting a library.  The school have started a project to set up a…

  • 13th March 2013

    The journey forwards It’s been a rather frantic few weeks for me as I now have numerous jobs and have, to term a well-known phrase, not always been able to see the wood for the trees.  There has been little time to write lately, and much as I love my ‘other’ jobs, all of which are wordy…

  • 27th February 2013

    WORLD BOOK DAY! Oh yes, it’s that time of year again, and I LOVE IT!  World Book Day this year is on 7th March.  There are games, resources and a book review competition on their official website (see link above) and you can also follow them on Twitter here. World Book Day, which sees events all over…

  • 19th February 2013

    Yellow Roses It’s been a while since I’ve blogged, in fact, I hadn’t even checked in to this wordpress site, so I was really pleased to see that some of you have still been dropping by to read my old posts… a big thank you to you! Today, a poem, written last night, straight out, as it…

  • 21st December 2012

    A Very Sunny Blog Post I’m delighted to say that my wee Musings & Mutterings (Previously known as my BOF – Blog on Friday) has been nominated for the ‘Sunshine Award’ (YAY!) and as I like sunshine and sunflowers, I am doubly happy to accept it. The Sunshine Award is ‘given and passed on to bloggers who positively…

  • 11th December 2012

    A writer or a story maker? There’s a slight irony about the title of this week’s blog post, given that my now completed co-written novel is indeed called ‘The Story Maker’.  It’s easy at times, I think, to get submerged in all the writing malarkey that now exists, the marketing, the networking… and so on, and…

  • 2nd December 2012

    SCBWI Dooby Dooooooooo I’ve done it! My first SCBWI conference. And I survived… yay, of course I did.  For those who don’t know, SCBWI is the Society for Children’s Book Writers and Illustrators, referred to as ‘Scooby’ and run by a whole host of amazing people who put in hours and hours of work to…

  • 17th October 2012

    The Story Maker This has to be the most exciting blog post I have written yet (from my point of view) in the most excitable frame of mind, probably since the original conception of this story idea, back in February this year -my ‘2am moment’ – and its coinciding blog post. ‘The Story Maker’, co-written with…

  • 26th October 2012

    Breaking my Blog and Blogging about my Break! I have decided to have a blog break for a while, and have been kind of putting off this post as I didn’t really want to.  After almost a year and a half of weekly blogging, breaking off from it felt like taking a step backwards somehow. …