It’s knitting season
It’s a while since I’ve posted a knitting blog – and not for the reason you are thinking. Here in the northern hemisphere, summer is gone and WINTER IS COMING – cue…
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A personal tribute…
This week, the publishing world lost one of its best and brightest… agent Carole Blake. Her sudden death was met in equal measure by shock and grief. A world without Carole was…
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Technical meltdown
I had it brought home to me this week how totally we now rely on technology. My website went down. Yes this one, which I assume is back up or no one…
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Merry Christmas and thank you
Another year has passed – and what a great year it has been. Books, good friends, travel and more books. Thank you to all my friends and readers who have helped make…
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Books, buses and bits..,
Books aren’t like buses… they are sometimes red (not read of course – that would be a terrible pun), but they aren’t that big or noisy. Yet…. Like buses, you can wait…
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A tuneful new addition
We have a new addition to the family… a lovely guitar – but not just any old guitar. This one was custom made and is very very special. It all started…
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Imperfect poetry
Tread softly because you tread on my dreams – W.B. Yeats (1865–1939) It’s a phrase quoted to me many years ago by a teacher – and I have never forgotten it. The imagery…
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Much more than just pointy ears
I was going to blog this week about a big hole in the ground in Wales – but got diverted by the sad loss of Leonard Nimoy – universally known as…