Only a month to Christmas Day and I've just started thinking about all that I need to do. Usually that's because November is busy...

Goodness where has September gone? No, I haven't been wasting my time since my last post. I've been working on an entry for one of...

I'm home and catching up from a short break away at the seaside - Scarborough in North Yorkshire. Unfortunately our four hour journey ...

I can now reveal that my fun weekend (mentioned in my last blog post) was at the 2018 Romantic Novelists Conference at Leeds Trinity Univers...

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...

It's rather cold and snowy in my part of Nottingham. Where's that come from? Where does the road start? Usually we escap...

I'm catching up and getting back into a routine- slowly. Last week was very busy, as I was 50% of a talk given at Nottingham Writers...

It's only 15 days until Christmas Day and I've still got so much to do... I'm doing this in two parts so you haven't got to ...

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...

I'm going backwards for this visit to Bath, and sharing the smaller less well-known museums in Bath first. Last Sunday we (husband and...

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 ...

On Friday I travelled up to York to visit a couple of exhibitions, as well as take advantage of a short break with my husband, minus the fam...

I'm very pleased I didn't need any newspapers to write my short story- it's now on its way, and after the final editing came out...

Where has this year gone? In just over a month it will be Christmas again. I'm now a year older, but let's forget about that...:...

Yes, that's it, today I was able to write THE END at the bottom of chapter eighteen. I know there's still a lot to do, but that'...

If you wonder what cotton wool and tights have to do with books and history then you may be surprised. But first... Saturday 12th Septem...

A quick post about a nationwide visiting opportunity this weekend, Heritage Open Days- UK . I mentioned this to a few writer friends and i...

Having two blogs to run, this one and Serena's, I thought I'd have a look through some of my old (back-up) CD/DVDs to choose a few o...

It's fortunate you can't see the traces of purple on my fingers, but if you could then you might realise I've been picking Black...