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  • 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 portentous music (thank you George R R Martin). I didn’t stop knitting in summer. I knitted my heart out – and made not…

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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 somehow unimaginable – even to those who imaginations light our lives every day through the pages of their books. How we will miss…

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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 is reading this. With it went my main e-mail. It was down for more than two days. Actually – worse – it was…

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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 ages for one, and then two will come at once. Not only that, they may also cause you to stop unexpectedly in your…

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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 when webmaster John went to a folk festival without me. (That is always a mistake, she says, smiling.) John met a man who makes…

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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 is beautiful. The words are musical. The sentiment profound. It’s wonderful. It’s poetry at its very best. I write very very bad poetry.…

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