Goodbye 2020 ~ The Longest Year
2020 - what a year! Since it's New Year's Eve (at last!) and tonight the clocks will chime us into a new year (at last!) I thought I'd look back…
#AtoZChallenge Z is For …
Ta-da! It's the final day of the A to Z Challenge! Can you believe that? I'm not sure I can. I really, really wasn't convinced I'd manage to post every…
#AtoZ Challenge F is For …
Happy Tuesday! Here we are again, and today it's all about the F words. Friends. You've gotta have friends, as the song goes. And you really do. I'm not talking…
#AtoZChallenge B is For …
Welcome to day two of the A to Z Challenge. Today's letter, unsurprisingly, is B. So what can I say about being an indie author that begins with B? Hmm...…
I’ve Been Nominated for the Sunshine Blogger Award!
The Sunshine Blogger Award allows bloggers to highlight and celebrate their fellow bloggers’ creativity and positivity within the blogging community. I'm chuffed to little mint balls and absolutely delighted to…
‘Twas the Night Before Christmas – Well, Almost ..!
This will be my last blog post for 2019 and I can hardly believe it's that time of year again, but here we are and it's Christmas. In just a…
A Day in a Castle! Our Visit to Beautiful Castle Howard.
Yesterday, I had a wonderful day out with a visit to Castle Howard, North Yorkshire. Lately, I've been so buried in edits for my forthcoming Bramblewick novel, Christmas at Cuckoo…
Custard Creams, Colouring Books, Stationery and Sanditon
It's all coming back to me now ... I'm a mother of five children, but they're all grown up now. In fact, sometimes it's hard to imagine having them all…
Looking Forward to Autumn: A September Catch-up
I honestly can't believe that it's that time again: my quarterly catch-up is upon us once more. How can it be September already? It was May only five minutes ago,…
Looking Forward to Summer: A June Catch-Up
It seems like ages since I last blogged on here. Well, it is ages - it was March when I last put fingers to keyboard for this page. Shameful! Anyway,…