I’ve already talked here about how cemeteries and graveyards start my imagination running, but if I’m really looking for inspiration it’s the big, old, crumbling, Victorian mansion that makes me want to write. And, lucky for me, we’re knee deep in them here in the UK. But the sad truth is that over the last … More Ideas abound in the English Country House
I have an insatiable curiosity for cemeteries. Maybe it’s because my grandmother used to live next to a church with a large graveyard, but more likely it’s the stories behind the words, a fascination with other people’s lives, especially when they don’t appear to have gone to plan, don’t seem ordinary. You could accuse me … More Highgate Cemetery -The Story Behind the Headstone
According to some of our commercial apple growers we are going to have a bumper crop of apples this year. A mild spring and warm summer, accompanied by the perfect amount of rainfall, has resulted in a vintage year for our English apples. Sadly, in my part of Wiltshire that’s not true. We have … More The Holy Trinity of all Apples
Elderflowers are a quintessentially British ingredient; a bonus addition to our arsenal of cupboard essentials, as well as a welcome boost to our taste buds, reminding us that summer should be here… May in Britain brings us Elder dripping with flowers, hedgerows heavy with the sweet aroma. Our long, wet and relatively warm winter has … More Elderflowers – A long awaited taste of summer
I have been quiet here for a while. My excuse, well, I’ve been away. So far 2014 hasn’t quite turned out how I expected, so we decided to go abroad, go somewhere where things were different, somewhere where I could think about things other than the everyday. So we went to Cuba. Cuba which is … More Cuba, a Country of Colour and Contradictions
That pile of books that sits beside my bed is becoming ridiculous. It’s a joke. It’s an embarrassment. My husband laughs at me as he holds his battered old IPhone in his palm, taunting me with the small instrument with which he reads his books. But I love that pile of books. Every night it … More That Pile of Books Beside my Bed
In an interview with the Guardian last year, Jim Crace was “a little surprised that passing the “apparently unpromising location” of the Watford Gap service station should have provided the impetus for a novel set during the enclosure of the English countryside”. He is the master of the understatement; it is difficult to see how … More Harvest by Jim Crace – A Review
When you’ve been rained on for four long months the only thing to resort to is comfort food. Something hearty and warming, something that’s going to brighten your day.You need food that’s good for the soul and reassuring to the stomach. As you know we Brits like to talk about the weather, but even we … More Comfort Food in the Rain
For a girl who doesn’t do Valentine’s Day what am I doing with a heart shaped cookie cutter? More to the point, what am I doing making Ginger Hearts? Actually, I don’t know, but I did it on a whim. Those heart shaped cookie cutters were everywhere and I just couldn’t help myself. But I’ve … More The Last Minute Valentine
There are many articles, websites and books on creative writing out there. And nearly all of them will get you to examine your writing habits and find the one that suits you and your lifestyle best. Firstly there’s the discussion about the best time of day to write. Are you the ‘get up very early’ … More The Schizophrenic Writer
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