Shtisel and losing touch with reality.
It seems I need other adults around to behave like a grown-up myself. My husband had COVID for the first week of the Easter holidays and was holed up in…
Category: Heroes and heroines
Gasmasks, secret Christmas cards, underpants and the reason I took 4 years of Latin.
I am so glad the weekend is here, and we’re at home for it. The last 7 days: We went away last weekend to celebrate my husband’s birthday. On Saturday,…
The Duke and my opinions on Bridgerton.
Picture Credit: USA Today I write this sitting in bed to work. (We call it “doing a Churchill.) I’m not usually given to such self-indulgence, but I had a bad…
Netflix-informed parenting, Prince Philip and my first draft.
I’m writing this a bit late. My husband and I stayed up to collect my son from a cold-sounding meet in his mate’s garden. He wanted to cycle back at…
A turnaround week
I started this week feeling uninspired – one of my least favourite sensations – and have finished with so much in my head I don’t know what to put in…
An ode to term-time and escaping literary gloom.
Oooh! I’ve changed my WordPress theme. I even like the draft page better. I always enjoy the sanity of a new term. We’re in full lockdown and home-schooling. You might…
Nanowrimo week 4: “Winning” a novel and whether the Crown should be this gripping.
New blog post: “Winning” a novel and whether the Crown should be this gripping.
Clean feet, interviews and 100 years of the vote.
I have different kinds of love for each type of writing I do. Developing a novel is like parenting: you’re bringing something into being that wouldn’t otherwise exist, but there…
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