THE event
This week saw the annual Romantic Novelist Association Awards – the RoNAS. It’s THE event of the year for a lot of us. A time when the RNA honours the best of…
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Never doubt Leonardo
Like so many things, it all started with Leonardo da Vinci. Then it took a few hundred years for the rest of the world to catch up. I’ve just spent a wonderful…
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Imagination runs wild
I’ve just spent a few days in Doha, a city renowned for fabulous architecture but not so much for public art. The public art tends to be along the lines of a…
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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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Three Cheers…
It seems only fitting that on Valentine’s Day, I should do a blog devoted to Romance – ah, but not just any romance. This is all about my love affair with books…
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Romancing the airwaves
I stepped back in time a little this week – back to my days as a journalist when I was doing radio news reports. But this time – I was on the…
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Metal moshing in pink
I’ve just done something I have never done before – and probably never thought I would do… I have joined the mosh pit at a metal gig. Ok – let set a…
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Oops.. I did it again (again)
I have just got to stop going to Wool and knitting shows. Last weekend, I was at the Waltham Abbey Wool Show. The thing about events like this… many of the stall…
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We could be heroes
I lost one of my heroes this week – the amazing David Bowie died. He was 69 and had just released his latest album, Blackstar. I’m listening to it as I write.…