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New Year. New Resolutions? I don’t do those nowadays, no point I don’t stick to them, so I’m not playing. I do have a resolution however and it’s nothing to do with New Year. I’m hoping, aiming, and wanting to keep the gift of a healthy body because I know […]
Read MoreNot writing today! No guilt! There’s no right or wrong in life For a long time I’ve been following the conventional wisdom that a writer must write everyday, but should we? Is it really necessary? Perhaps our creative ‘genius’ would be far more inspirational if we forced ourselves to take time […]
Read MoreI took a short break from my home on the Costa Blanca, Spain, to spend three days in the Rioja region of northern Spain and happened across the strangest cathedral — one inside which a hen and a rooster are housed in a gothic 15th century henhouse. Not only that, there is […]
Read MoreWorldwide fame is on its way to the bottom of my street in Moraira! Yes my street! One hundred and forty countries are set to tune in on their TV’s/computers, not to see my street I must add, but to see the Vuelta a España gear up for the last-but-two […]
Read MoreA poem from the heart for my new grandson. Born at 24 weeks, weighing 670 grams (one & half pounds) You were born a little early … Your birth was unexpected and as you lay in your glass womb, The world moved on unaffected by your premature […]
Read MoreI flew back to the UK primarily to see my lovely family but whilst there took the opportunity to cause a bit of fun at Downend Library, near Bristol (the city where the HEN PARTY starts). It was more like a party than a book evening … I organised tapas and sangria […]
Read MoreWhy did we bother to carry our sink! Look at all the nice shiny Spanish sinks for sale! We carried this bloomin’ kitchen sink from England to Spain, and that was some adventure as some of you might remember I said it was doomed from the outset and […]
Read MoreThis is my youngest grandson (8 months). His naughty Daddy is teaching him reading habits way beyond his innocent years as you can see! I really love to catch up with my family in the UK which is where I’ve been for the past few weeks, but this trip […]
Read MoreI’m in my happy home hunting ground for a while …Bristol. The place I grew up, the place I worked, the place I fell in love and married, the place where my children were born and a place I love very much. It’s a vibrant City, the home of Wallace and Gromit […]
Read MoreWell, excitement mounts and all because of the HEN PARTY. A reader who is on holiday in Benidorm had her hair done at the hairdressers that featured in the TV programme ‘Brits living in Benidorm’. She happened to be reading my book, yes my book – it seems so strange […]
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