If you wander over to my Writer in Residence page, you’ll find out more about my year-long residency with Kirklees Libraries.It’s all still a bit new and scary, but I’d absolutely love as many of you as possible to join me for my first online session this THURS 3 Sep at 11:00 GMT. The session […]
Wordy Wondrous Resolution?
If you’re going to make a New Year’s Resolution, at least try for something that happens to be a little bit more challenging for the old grey matter than the usual ‘go to gym more’ or ‘don’t eat lard.’ That’s what I’ll be attempting anyway, and this year with a bit more of a vernacular […]
Everything Is Lovely
I’ve been asked by the marvellous Anne L Harvey to carry on the torch of ‘My Lovely Blog.’ This is simply a relay-blog between fellow writers who share similar interests and take in life. I’m going to have a stab at answering these questions and then will pass you onto two further buddies… My First […]
WUDE WORDS FOR WORLD BOOK DAY
Everyone in our house enjoys World Book Day. Even more so this year! The 5 year old’s school requested him to dress up as a character from his favourite book (disappointing me somewhat…I was hoping that he wanted to go as something rather literary, rather serious – such as Aslan the Lion, but no….bloody Spiderman. […]
A Flat Head? EJ Howard, writing and the waterways…
One of our local librarians managed to push aside the fear of her own redundancy in order to try and engage with me. There I was. Wild eyed and raddled mother of second, newborn baby. Desperate for something both entertaining and intelligent to get me through the wee small hours of brain and boobie-overdrive boredom… […]
Death Penalty – a light-hearted distaction for Tory screw-ups…
I know that I shouldn’t be shocked. But I am. Apparently it’s the power of the public. The power of the petition. If enough people have enough strong views about something or other – our adorable Members of Parliament get to collectively debate it. With the potential of re-establishing the legal -snuffing out of human […]