What do you do when you’re offered milk daily? Scour the internet for recipes.
After a disturbed night, I woke bleary eyed and with a sense of dread. Today, mum and I will be returning to Dorset driving on motor-ways. UGH! After Mum opened the curtains at five am, she announced she was awake and why wasn’t anyone else? Outside, the leaden clouds were depositing their contents, and the…
A little bit of very exciting news, I’ve been asked to read a short piece of my writing. If you’d care to join us and listen to writers reading from their work, book a place. It’s Free!!! My heart feels like I’m running a marathon, and the hot flushes. Well! I’m reading the first chapter…
Part 2: Up to Whitby and Back. My son and his partner both work and the two children are at school or nursery, so mum and I explored for the day. We toured the north-east coast of Yorkshire, because once again, we’d heard of these small seaside towns but never visited. Leaving early in the…
Part One: To Hull My mum told me over the phone that all you girls (the youngest of us girls, above, will celebrate her 60th birthday in November) were going on exotic holidays this year and she hadn’t been invited. Not only that, it looked like she wouldn’t be having a holiday at all this…
The following isn’t a recipe. Once a fortnight, I visit my writing buddy, Abagail Thorne. We spend the morning working through a writerly course and in the afternoon we critique a piece of each other’s writing, learn a facet of our craft, or depending on whether one of us is close to publication, we check…