My favourite board games
If you’re bored of Monopoly, Cluedo and Scrabble and fancy something new, here’s a few recommendations.
How I wrote my first novel
I’ve been wanting to be a writer since I was 8. Now 45 years later, here’s how I finally managed it…
My last first date
13 years of internet dating. I’d more or less given up hope of meeting ‘The One’. Until one February afternoon and a date at the V&A…
DIY? Or pay someone else?
Mending a dripping tap? Building a website? Making a wedding cake? Do you pay someone else? Or attempt it yourself?
Getting Started
Why is it so hard to get started on a new project? Or to restart an old one that’s been put aside for a few months?
New Year resolutions?
Have you made a long list of resolutions for 2023? Are you expecting to stick to them? This year, I’ve decided to make just two.
My Top Ten Reads of 2022
Because I’ve been busy writing, I’ve not read as many novels this last year. Here’s my top ten picks of 2022.
We are Inevitable – a review
“Twenty-six letters and some punctuation marks and you have infinite words in infinite worlds….How is that not a miracle?”
Three Memoirs
Three wonderful memoirs that I’ve recently read: The Last Act of Love, I Am I Am I Am and My Mess is a Bit of a Life.
Why I’ve changed my diet
Is eating 5 (or even 10) portions of fruit and veg a day enough? Why I changed my diet after reading Tim Spector’s The Diet Myth.