My thoughts about books, writing, life and so many other things….Judy Leigh/ Elena Collins.
I’ve always been bit of a wimp about cooking a meal for just myself. I’m a dry-biscuits and a bit of fruit or a bowl of soup kind of girl if I’m on my own. It doesn’t bring the same amount of enjoyment, cooking for one, dining alone. Sharing is nice, eating with others is …
My blog tour for Lil’s Bus Trip started on 26th August and it continued to the 7th September. I loved every minute of it. It was organised brilliantly, as ever, by Rachel's Random Resources and Boldwood Books. I always look forward to blog tours; it’s a chance to meet up again with some reviewers that …
Lil’s Bus Trip is published on the 26th August. It is my seventh novel, and my eighth one is currently under wraps for publication later this year. All my novels feature older people as main characters, embracing the fact that all people can still laugh, love, develop and enjoy life, whatever their age. I try …
Continue reading My latest novel, Lil’s Bus Trip: what I’m writing about now and what’s coming next.
I really enjoyed watching the Olympic games on TV recently. There’s something very inspirational and moving about seeing the performance of talented athletes who have dedicated years to perfecting their skills, the culmination of their training coming to fruition in the Olympic arena against others who are also at the top of their game. It’s …
Continue reading Olympics, Football: it’s all about the supporters.
When I was in my teens, I had a boyfriend – let’s call him Alexander - who told me ‘You care too much about people who don’t matter.’ I was intrigued by that comment and, being a bit of a philosopher, I went away and thought about it a lot. The first bit, I accepted: …
Continue reading To care or not to care, that is the question….
Like many people, I have dreamed and planned for a long time what I’ll actually do to celebrate when the time of Covid restrictions comes to an end. I haven’t spoken to most of these people face to face, of course, but at a social distance and, more times than not, over social media. There’s …
Continue reading Note to myself as this time of restrictions comes to an end…
Like many people in England, I stayed up late to watch the exciting match between England and Italy and, like many people, I have been aware of the aftermath this morning on the news: I usually listen to a sports channel in the gym and the programme was full of regrets because the team lost …
It’s interesting to think about talented people and to stop for a moment and really take in just how good they are, in terms of their skills being so much more than what we know as average. I often use myself as the average against which to compare others, but in many ways, I don’t …
Continue reading The treasure inside the nutshell: talent that goes unnoticed.
I have a friend who claims to have completely cured her arthritis by swimming in the sea, whatever the weather. Her pains completely disappeared, and she swore that it was because she immersed herself regularly in freezing water. I recently saw British athlete Mo Farah and Portuguese footballer Cristiano Ronaldo do something similar on TV, …
Continue reading The immersion technique – it’s one way to write your next novel…
I know I’m blogging here about the novels I’m currently working on, but let’s not start with what I’m writing just yet - I’ll get on to that in a moment - let’s just set the scene first. I’m lucky to be way ahead on all writing schedules and outside right now, the weather is …
That quintessence of dust 