Today is the day when each of the reading options for Fede’s Letters becomes available for you, dearest reader, to take this opportunity curl up and read Fede’s story. Today is the day when every form of Fede’s letters becomes available for you to read. There is the ebook if you have a kindle and…

Champagne corks popped in our house last week, marking the culmination of a two-year journey. My latest novel, the first in an exciting new series, has finally taken flight to my trusted ARC readers. This tale has led me down fascinating paths of research. From the intricacies of 1930s Spanish Civil War weaponry to the…
Every year when the blueberries ripen, I battle the nesting blackbirds for the fruit. Their ripening coincides with fledging babies.I have three bushes given to me by a friend for my 60th birthday. In a normal year, they produce enough to freeze and last through the winter. We like to eat them on wintry mornings…
I’m very excited. Authors for the Algarve and it’s sister group Authors for Hispania have interviewed the author me with three unorthodox questions. It’s a weekly event, interviewing authors who live in Spain or Portugal, come and see what unorthodox lives we lead. If you want to ask me a question anytime on Wednesday 28th…
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…
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…
My new regime of posting three posts a month has fallen at the first hurdle. Basically, I ran out of time to give each one the attention it deserved. The worst was the Tom Pears, what I’m reading post. It went out before I wrote up the review, my fault entirely. I will leave the…