Thank you for reading my blog! I’m bewildered by the miracle of blogging. I sit here in the middle of rural England at a desk writing a few random thoughts. I schedule the time for the blog to go out and whoosh! As if by magic, people across the globe stop to read it. As …
Category: Mind body and spirit
You know it’s spring when…(A UK perspective.)
The winter is always great fun. First you get Hallowe’en and Bonfire Night, and the dark sky is our best friend, a backdrop of stars while we’re out trick-and-treating, or filled with billowing smoke and fizzing rockets in all colours. The smell of baking potatoes hangs on the air, fried onions, spicy parkin – whatever …
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Researching a new novel
On writing a new novel...
Why I love Tom Hardy…
Tom Hardy the actor embodies what I love about all arts....
Overthinking: what can we do to spot it and stop it?
Overthinking and a few ideas about how to deal with it...
How to deal with self doubt…
How to banish feelings of self-doubt and replace them with self-worth...
Being a vegan is sometimes the funniest thing.
On vegan food, and how much better it is now...
The Greatest Gift…
My thoughts about giving, now the Christmas season is over...
The Witch’s Tree: images and quotations
Here are some quotations from my latest novel, The Witch's Tree, complete with some photos I've taken.
Quiz: Would you have been a witch in the 1600s?
In The Witch's Tree, the finger of suspicion is pointed in the seventeenth century. How would you have fared then? Take my quiz.