Hello and welcome to my June Newsletter. Like many people, after over two years of barely going anywhere, we have recently had a couple of short breaks. In April we spent a couple of days in Great Malvern, a place we had never been before...
Year: 2022
Beverley Latimer – My June 2022 Guest Author
I first met this month’s guest on social media through our shared interest in reading and writing. She has published two books so far and is busy working on the third so I’m pleased she has agreed to have a chat with me. Good morning, Beverley, I thought we might...
My May 2022 Newsletter
Hello and welcome to my May Newsletter. May is my favourite month of the year because everything is so fresh and green and I love the plants that flower now - primroses, bluebells, and wood anemones. Over the Easter weekend, we went for a local walk...
My May 2022 Guest Author – Shiv Saywack
I first met this month’s guest when he read my debut book, The Mazzard Tree and wrote a lovely five-star review. We became friends on social media through our shared interest in reading and writing. Shiv writes under the name S S Saywack and I know his writing career...
My April 2022 Newsletter
Hello and welcome to my April Newsletter. I always thought the month of March was supposed to come in like a lion and go out like a lamb, but it seems to have been the opposite this year. We had some lovely warm sunny weather in the middle of the month but...
My April Guest – Pam Lecky
I first met this month’s guest on social media through our shared interest in reading and writing, and we quickly became friends. As well as several short stories, Pam has written six books which she will tell you more about. A while ago I read and enjoyed No Stone...
My March 2022 Newsletter
Hello and welcome to my March Newsletter My garden is looking lovely at the moment. The snowdrops are past their best but they have been replaced with masses of crocuses and small Tete a Tete daffodils. Mind you, like many people, we did take quite a...
My March Guest Author – Alison Huntingford
I first met Devon author, Alison Huntingford, when I won one of her books in a Facebook competition and we quickly became friends on social media. As well as a short story called Someone Else, Alison has written two historical fiction books called The Glass Bulldog...
My February 2022 Newsletter
Hello and welcome to my February Newsletter. It's hard to believe we are into February already when Christmas doesn't seem that long ago. Mind you, we only got around to having a Christmas meal with all the family recently as several had covid during...
Has the Pandemic Changed Your Habits?
I met a friend for a coffee recently and we were talking about how our lives have changed over the last couple of years. Looking back, I don’t think there can be anyone that the pandemic has not affected in some way or another. It has been a time of great sadness for...
Happy New Year: My January 2022 Newsletter
Hello and a Happy New Year! I hope you all had a good Christmas and New Year? My Christmas was a little mixed - some parts good and some not so much. We were going to swap presents with Stuart, my eldest son, and his wife, Laura, on Christmas Eve, but they had become...