A tongue in cheek look at Lockdown - or is that Lickdown?
Couch and Carbs This is the phase of flop on the couch and eat yourself silly. What a pleasure to be told to stay at home and vegetate...
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I blog about whatever interests me. So you will find a variety of different topics.
At the moment, because I am fascinated about World War 2 and have set my present novel in that era,
you might find I am blogging about interesting stories of that time.
But I also love blogging about what I have learned about writing, or about interesting people and places.
Have a look and click on whatever interests you.
Do you have a lucky mascot?
This poignant story (below) about a World War 2 bomber pilot and his “Pinnie the Wooh” bear mascot made me think about what mascots other...
What I’ve learned about magazine covers
I have recently just had S A Country Life magazine choose my photo for their January 2020 cover. You can imagine how excited I was as I...
Red tears that really do fall from the sky
I had been told about the helicopter that dropped rose petals on the Italian prisoners’ graves, but only when a petal landed on my...
Only when I wrote this article did I understand what ‘going viral’ meant.
While researching a story a few years ago on the diamond mining town of Cullinan in South Africa, someone told me that they had...
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