Chocolate.

  My publishing journey has been on hold. After a break I didn’t emerge for quite a while. I discontinued going to my writing group.  Then I became involved in another project – collecting animals, including: three horses; three dogs; and two donkeys – and I bought some land to put them on! Most importantly, I ran…

Monday 20th April 2020. Number of words written last week: 6500 (weekly target min 5,000).  Double yay! This week’s target: min 5000 Last week’s focus: write, make it real, make it more real This week’s focus: as above. Managed to smash my target! Hurrah! I found more ‘stuff’ this week which will help build on…

1.    Middle lane hoggers. 2.    Show offs. (See 3.) 3.    Sports cars. (See 2.) 4.    Radio 2. 5.    Slow internet connection. 6.    When bananas go off really quickly. 7.    When people don’t quite get the POINT! 8.    People that go about 48mph in the slow lane – but this would…

I’m not a big fan of gardening and I’m very happy with my small low- maintenance garden.  Sadly, I can’t seem to keep pot plants alive in the house or outside either, so I don’t often keep them.  I love flowers however, but I avoid lilies because, despite their glorious aroma, I know the nectar…

    I took a year out of work in 1994 to backpack around the world. It’s a long time ago now, and I didn’t actually circumference the globe, but I travelled through Africa, Asia and Australasia.  I had the time of my life and met so many interesting people.  In Africa, I met a…

    Happy Birthday Daddy, I love you and miss you too. Even though you are not here, these words are present and true. I struggled to buy you gifts I’d only guess you wouldn’t hate. It always seemed you had everything, even when I was eight. It was hard to please you sometimes, and…