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All Things Milk.
What do you do when you’re offered milk daily? Scour the internet for recipes.
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Part Three.
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…
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To Hull and Back.
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…
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To Hull and Back
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…
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Haphazard and The Munchkins.
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…
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The End of the March Middle Grade Book Promotion.
March was a mad month with loads of learning, writing, leaping into the unknown, and not necessarily in that order. I belong to a pro-active, friendly Facebook group for middle-grade authors. Rae Knightly, a talented author and group member, volunteered to organise the March Middle Grade Book Promotion. At the time, I didn’t have a…
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It Never Rains But it Pours!
Amalie’s Perilous Adventure I’d re-published Amalie’s Perilous Journey on the 26th of February after a rewrite and re-edit and I was feeling pretty good with my achievement. The re-doing was because I wasn’t happy with where the original Amalie story began or ended, but now I am, and I hope you’ll love the new version…
Jacqueline P Vincent 