Here are two books about travelling in Britain that couldn’t be more different, since one is a real life contemporary travelogue and the other is fiction set in the Plague Year of 1348. But I liked both of them a great deal and so I’m taking the opportunity to pair them up (so there!) I … Continue reading Company of Liars and Are We Nearly there Yet?
Mindful somehow implies lyrical. But this is what came along for my first #smallstones Biding her Time The ‘lovely Amaryllis’ sits squat and mutinous in her plastic pot. After the indignity of the journey she expected warmth, comfort, hospitality at least! But this window-sill is draughty, the watery daylight no substitute for sun. Her bare … Continue reading Small Stones (1)
How to get back to writing after a break? My mental switch-off started well before Christmas when I took a holiday that turned out to be both self-indulgent (manicure and massage for madam?) and tiring (two night flights). Then there was the supermarket sweep (or three) to prepare for influx of visitors, ending in that all … Continue reading Started early, wrote my blog
Despite the impersonal look of those iconic buildings, Dubai is an accessible and surprisingly friendly city. December was a good month to go with temperatures similar to a really hot summer’s day in UK and a holiday mood among local ex-pats. Despite glitzy trees tucked neatly into lots of corners, Christmassy it was not, but I … Continue reading Picture post : there and back again
I met Nina a few years ago when I first joined Bristol Women writers and she was already an ‘old hand’. Since then we’ve both been through a few life changes but have continued to meet up every few weeks until this summer when she and husband Jim made the move fromBristoltoWest Wales. I’m delighted … Continue reading My guest today is Nina Milton
