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I have just spent a week in Cumbria with hubbie and little son. The holiday house was a 17th century farmhouse in Grasmere with wonderful views from every window and the sounds of rushing water from the stream and birdsong in the garden. Hubbie has a special birthday coming up and requested an early birthday… Continue reading Climb Every Mountain

Yes, I’ve done it! I’ve finished it! For the past age, well 14 months, I have been struggling with a module of my distance learning creative writing course. I’ve at last completed it. I had begun to think that I never would. I am still not sure why I have struggled so much. Having completed… Continue reading Freedom!

A few years ago I had a great boss and we had such fun trying to influence our workplace. For example, we had a new manager who said no to any of our suggestions. P came up with the idea that we needed to influence him subtly. The manager was a Wolves FC fan, so… Continue reading Word Challenge

There was a man lying on my lap. His blood was warm as it seeped through my long skirts. All I could see from my position on the floor was a ring of knee-high leather boots. They were caked with the same mud I had waded through to get to work. The men chanted “Jacobite”… Continue reading Past Life

My life is rich in friends, for which I daily give thanks. It wasn’t until one of my birthday parties that I realised how many different spheres of connection and interest I inhabit. Some of these are exclusive and others overlap. At that party I was surprised by how many of my friends didn’t know each other… Continue reading Spheres of Connection

Realised that I forgot to tell you about one of my housework habits when this was the hot topic of the last post. Every week I have a ‘make a difference day’. This is when I abandon normal housework and try to make an improvement in each room of the house. It can be something simple… Continue reading Make a Difference Day

I don’t know what the technical term is for what I am doing, so I’ve called it percolating. Ideas are bubbling to the surface all the time and I’m writing them down. They are accompanied by a rush of excitement and anticipation and I know that I am going to have a writing splurge shortly.… Continue reading Percolating

I am not doing very well with my writing at the moment. Accepting that it is half term and hubbie is working away, so my opportunities are reduced anyway. Writing class is on a two week break too and that always gets the creative juices going. However, these things are not the problem. Instead I… Continue reading Where has all the writing gone?

It is exciting to see that several of my friends have had debut novels published. I do hope it rubs off on me. Check out here for Serenity Woods ‘Black Hawke Down’ and her website serenitywoods.blogspot.com Also Rachel Lyndhurst’s ‘Storm’s Heart’ here and her website http://rachellyndhurst.blogspot.com/ Note: Both of these books have adult themes. Congratulations to… Continue reading Hope It Rubs Off

I survived speaking to the local WI on Valentine’s Day. I commented how appropriate it was to be speaking about family trees on 14 February as after all romance and relationships are the building blocks of a family. The talk was entitled ‘You and Your Family Tree’. The “You” bit was to encourage the ladies… Continue reading Valentine Talk