Author – Writer – Designer
Isn’t it funny how society circles and circles around itself? How all teenagers and children think they’re discovering things for the first time, but it’s mostly just the same stuff their parents, and their grandparents, went through. I cringe now when I remember coming home from university brimming with knowledge that I thought I was
Living in Britain is a rollercoaster. Do you wonder why we spend so much time talking about the weather? Because it is different every bloody day. Sometimes several times a day. British people are ruled by the seasons. On our small island we are never more than 85 miles from the sea (and a hell
A memory popped up on my facebook page recently. It was from about 8 years ago and I was having a little rant that my eldest had been awake all night having nightmares. I remember it distinctly as it was the beginning of an exhausting period of her life where she grew scared to go
Letter writing was BIG in my family when we were kids. We wrote to penpals, to friends who had moved away, and we wrote thank you letters for presents. We wrote to magazines, we entered competitions by post and we wrote to our favourite celebrity fan clubs. I mean, we weren’t The Waltons. We weren’t
Writing is not just about grammar and spelling. It’s not just about ideas and twists and cliff-hangers. It’s not just about believable characters, well-constructed plots and vivid descriptions. And it’s not just about research, fact-checking or accurate quotes. I mean it is about those things, it’s about all those things. But also, and this is something I personally think