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This week I’m delighted to host an extract from Caroline James‘ new mystery, Hattie Goes To Hollywood. Hattie is nursing a hangover when she’s joined by her neighbour and handyman. The three prepare to set off for the country & western themed village fete. An hour later, Hattie, fully dressed, sat in the kitchen and… Continue reading Extract From Hattie Goes To Hollywood by Caroline James

I’m late posting this week, as I’ve been floored by a dreaded lurgy brought home from school by my youngest son. Lots of things I want to write about too! First of all Happy Valentine’s Day. We don’t celebrate in our house as my husband thinks it’s a commercial thing and besides the fact he’s… Continue reading Happy Valentine’s Day, Competitions, A Talk, Offers, An Award, and Future Blog Guests.

I definitely had a “crafty” January! On my post of 13 January, I posted the “before” pictures of my fused glass course and I’m excited to say that I now have the pieces back after their kiln firing. (Also discovered it is very difficult to photograph them effectively.) Before After These pictures don’t quite capture… Continue reading Soap and Glass Bubbles – Craft Update

This week I have a post from Carol Thomas, author of Maybe Baby. I asked her to talk about a special ornament she owns … I don’t have many ornaments in my house, but when Morton invited me to take part in her blog to talk about an ornament I love, I knew I had… Continue reading Carol Thomas – An Ornament I Love

I have some new blog features for 2020, one of which is to ask authors to tell readers when and how they began to write. The first author to reply to this question is Georgia Hill. Over to Georgia … Hi everyone and hope it’s not too late to wish you all a Happy New… Continue reading When and How I Began to Write – Georgia Hill

I had a weaving loom for Christmas. Now even though I went on a day course about weaving, it was quite a challenge to warp the loom and begin weaving. Got it wrong the first time and ended up un-weaving! Lol I’ve always said I’m good at un-knitting, well now I’m good at un-weaving too!… Continue reading Crafting Update

As we start a new decade and I begin to plan my blogging year, I thought it was worth having a look back at the fantastic posts I featured in 2019. I posted 41 times in 2019 and these consisted of fifteen author spotlight posts, four extracts from author’s books, two posts by a character… Continue reading What Did I Blog About in 2019?

I’d like to wish my blog followers a Happy New Year! Where did Christmas go? We seemed to be on a fast toboggan ride towards Christmas Day and then in a blink of an eye it is all over and we are nearly at New Year. Hope that you all had a great Christmas period.… Continue reading Happy New Year

I would like to take this opportunity to wish all of my blog readers a happy Christmas. We are looking forward to a busy family Christmas Day. My eldest son and his girlfriend have moved back into our house after their house sale completed, but their house purchase sadly fell through at the last minute… Continue reading Merry Christmas

Helena Dixon joins me this week to share an excerpt of her new novel, which was published on 11 December 2019 – Murder at the Dolphin Hotel. It is right now storming up the UK and US charts 😀. About Murder at the Dolphin Hotel A room with a view… to murder.  June 1933. Kitty Underhay is a… Continue reading Excerpt from Murder at the Dolphin Hotel – Helena Dixon