Seven Miles of Steel Thistles

  In Thomas Gray's beautiful  'Elegy Written in a County Churchyard' , he muses over the unknown, uncelebrated talent of the hum...

I was sitting in my upstairs writing-room (the spare bedroom) when I saw one of our cats trot purposefully down my opposite neighbour’s ...

Will you all excuse me today if I  indulge in a little fanfare?  Because this is the publication day in America of my book 'The Shadow H...

( Imported from my post yesterday on the Awfully Big Blog Adventure ) What do you do with old manuscripts?  I don’t mean crinkly old medie...

Here is my grandmother – my mother’s mother – as a young woman.  She was born in 1892 and her name was Emmeline Mary Sherwood, though eve...