Category Archives: Friendship

Being random – from the archives.

Another from the archives… Nick in a box My sons, it must be said, are a creative pair. Not necessarily in a traditional sense. One could call it the deliberate and creative lunacy of opportunism, otherwise referred to as ‘being … Continue reading

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Not a blog tour – lunch with Helen Jones

It was all Helen’s fault… we wouldn’t have been at St Albans at all except we were meeting her not too far away. Having said that… just look what we would have missed! So we had plenty to talk about … Continue reading

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Sunday lunch

Sunday morning, we worked on the scripts for the April workshop, before packing the car with our bags and heading back the way I had come just a few days and many adventures earlier… except this time, I was not … Continue reading

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Canning Day – in memorium

“It’s Boxing Day,” my two-legs said, I have to disagree, The morning after Christmas Has another name to me. “It’s Canning Day,” I whispered, And my two-legs cocked an eye, I turned away discretely ‘Cause the small dog doesn’t cry. … Continue reading

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Replay – Guest Author, D. Wallace Peach – Big Hearts and Artists

In August I was very happy to welcome D. Wallace Peach, author of Myths of the Mirror,  The Bone Wall and many other books,  as my guest today. Diana is a creator and shaper of worlds… a writer of fantasy. … Continue reading

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Gift wrapped

My son called me to ask if I’d seen what he’d been up to. I duly admired the striking new layout of his blog, acknowledging the amount of work that had gone into making it visually memorable, particularly for Nick … Continue reading

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A new beginning…

Several years ago a friend asked me to work with him preparing one of his books for publication. The task expanded a little as we worked and eventually, we had a book, The Mystical Hexagram: The Seven Inner Stars of … Continue reading

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A bit of encouragement

Judy, over at Edwina’s Episodes, has just posted that it is National Encouragement Day… which, I have to say, is a new one on me. Never heard of that one before, so a quick google was in order. Nothing much … Continue reading

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Concrete, Rock and the Brotherhood of Man…

Time just seems to have gone loopy lately… I still haven’t finished writing about our adventures in the heather, yet somehow another two weeks have gone by and we have spent another weekend writing together. Though as weekends go, it … Continue reading

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Is blogging worth it? 10 reasons why…

‘Build an author platform’, we are told. As an author platform, is a blog economically viable? If everyone put a penny in a virtual pot, one for each article they had read in August on Daily Echo, and if I … Continue reading

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