That title sums up my weekend. Sunday I attended Lou Lou's Vintage Fair held at the Albert Hall (no not that one in London);this one i...

I hope you've enjoyed my blog posts about my museum visits last month: the Museum of Bath Architecture and the Bath Postal Museum . No...

Last Friday I went down to Bath for a long weekend. It was a wonderful and much-needed break after a stressful six months. As I've bee...

Finally I've had the time to fully gather my thoughts on York, as well as sorting my photos (there wasn't 600, I misread the totals ...

After my down spell last week I'm pleased to say equilibrium has been restored and I'm getting on with the first chapter rewrite. ...

This past week I finally got over to Derby and visited not only Pickford's House Museum of Georgian Life and Historic Costume, but also ...

Hope everyone is well. It's been taking me longer than usual to get over this latest bug, and actually I think it was a slight bout of...

Now that Awards Night is over I can finally reveal that I won the Nottingham Writers' Club, Mary Street Memorial Shield for Romance Writ...

Saturday's 'Georgian' visits are going to be split up into two blog posts, as the Fashion Museum deserves a post by itself; and ...

I had a great weekend, and did a lot of walking- lots of it uphill and down again. Now I have to get back to reality; unpack, sort out my ...

I just have to pack my clothes and my medication for my travels. My camera battery is charged, ready to take some interesting images- I ho...

The issue with holidays is how long it takes to get back to normal once you return home- in my case a week... Last Saturday I was in York....

Now I have to admit I do have a weakness for books on historical costume. If it's a full size beautifully illustrated book and the con...

The research a writer does is never bonkers. It's often quite inspirational, in fact it can be downright distracting. No, the research...

Now I'm not the type of person glued to the tv when this four yearly sport event is taking place. But I do like to watch the opening and...

Okay, I admit it, I left my weekend post up a bit longer than usual so I could bask in the glory of my first public reading of my work. I ...

As I write this on Monday evening we're waiting to find out where the gas leak is. There was a strong smell of gas earlier this evenin...

The Dictionary of Fashion History by Valerie Cumming , C W and P E Cunnington published by Berg (an imprint of Oxford International Publis...