A winning website
I was totally thrilled this week when my website – this very website – won the Viewers’ Choice vote in the West Houston RWA Romancing the URL contest. Because I also run…
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The best and most expensive cabbage ever
I have recently had the most expensive meal I have ever eaten. I mean seriously expensive… and seriously good too. I had of course heard about Michelin starred restaurants. I never quite understood…
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Oh Oh 7 – a near miss
This week I almost but not quite managed to accidentally on purpose bump into James Bond. I was working at Pinewood movie studios – and Daniel Craig was too. The latest Bond…
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Beeps and a drum roll
If you’ve been hearing high pitched excited squeals coming from the general direction of West London this week – well that was me. On Thursday I got a call to tell me…
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Dreams and Nightmares
What do you dream about? What is your worst nightmare? My good friend and sometimes co-conspirator Alison May has a new book out – Midsummer Dreams. To celebrate, she’s holding a world-wide…
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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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On Tour with The Wild One
It sounds like a rock concert tour doesn’t it – but I’m referring to all the fun I’ve been having on the book tour. This isn’t a tour that involves planes and…
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A sudden diversion in time
It had to happen one day. Regular readers of this blog know I am a bit of a history buff and spend as much time as I can climbing over ruined castles,…
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Supermarket as a tourist hot spot
I like to shop. That’s no great secret. I’m pretty good at it too (even if I do say so myself). And I love to shop in unusual places. I’ve just returned…