Meg Gardiner had sent me this instruction: “I tag you to write six random things about yourself. Rules on my blog.” These are the rules: Link to the person who tagged you. Post the rules on your blog. Write six … Continue reading
Tagged Life, meg gardiner|…was how the letter began. I was at a talk you gave a couple of years ago… Ok-ay. I was in the third or fourth row on the right (now we’re narrowing it down). I meant to tell you afterwards … Continue reading
I went to a funeral last week. I went because I knew his wife and wanted to support her but I’d met him only once. As I approached the crematorium there was queue to get in, a queue for the … Continue reading
This week I braved the early morning M25 and set off to Rochester, Kent to talk to the WI. This was booked months ago, the first of many talks this year and so it set the standard. What a lovely … Continue reading
First the article in the Times supplement, then the Radio 4 interview with Janet Behan, capped by years of hearing of and about Brendan Behan left me with little choice – I had to go and see this at The … Continue reading
I lied. It was a quandary – both times – which answers that old question: do you have to be a good speller to be a good writer? No…but it helps. Thanks to Linda Gillard for getting me back on track
So I find myself in a quandry. I need to write the scene where the fellow comes out of prison. It’ll be a moving scene – he thinks he’s alone, he can’t go back, he doesn’t know how to go forward, … Continue reading
Tagged Life|Call me when you get this….part 2 The first thing you think of when you read, ‘Call me when you get this…’ is that somebody’s died. The second thing is that you don’t want to know who it is, not … Continue reading
My husband was 50 this Christmas. A ski-ing holiday was his idea of a good present; ski-ing holiday is my idea of a contradiction in terms – an oxymoron, if you like. We had a Ski-ing holiday a few years … Continue reading
Tagged Life|Last week I was sent an email advising me to listen to a song by Lisa Koch on www.heylisa.com – MUSIC. The song was entitled, ‘Middle Aged Woman’ and it was highly irreverent. It made me laugh out loud. The … Continue reading