It's been a busy week so you'll be getting two posts today and tomorrow, otherwise it would be a very long post to read. I was scr...

I have survived. Previously I've done short writing sessions for the writers' club- when needed- but never actually done a worksho...

The display of members' published works... I spent Saturday (24th) at the last day of the Lowdham Book Festival, with other members...

Ideas come from everywhere. Have you ever been somewhere and something you've seen sticks in your memory even if you forget everything...

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...

The nasty winter bug finally caught up with me last week, and my brain went on go-slow until the antibiotics started to get control of the i...

At the moment I'm working on a shorter project set in the late 1920's. 1920's Red Cloche Hat from Shaping The Body Exhibitio...

I need quiet to write. Reality at the moment is that there's very little quiet available. So I'm not writing consistently, and t...

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 ...

As I've been attempting to revise a short story that has been sitting on my computer for a while - it won one of the writers club short ...

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...

Lots of berries on the Hawthorn... The past week has seen a lot of plans for the last quarter of the year change - but as the saying goe...

As I haven't been able to write, I've been gathering remaining research material ready for returning to the Nottinghamshire story. ...

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...

Pleased to say that the session I organised for yesterday's writers' club meeting went well. Last month one of the writers had men...

I have one secondary character bio left to complete, but I've hit a snag; the name and occupation I'd chosen. It's a contempor...

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...

No, not online dating... :D This weekend is #Romance2015. (Though if you're reading this later in the week it will be last weekend.) ...

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