Easter Fun and Frolics Circa 1750
No, this is a modern picture of course - rather tame looking 'Easter cupcakes'. In our times, apart from practising Christians, Easter...
Nanteos Mansion Easter Monday Afternoon Tea and House Tour with Cello recital.
The early owners of Plas Nanteos were consumate musicians ( wonderful painting in St Fagan's of Mary and Thomas who started the building...
The Geometry of Love:'The Funniest, Sexiest Book I've Read in a Long Time'
American writer Norman Schwenk might have enjoyed it - but my mother didn't (eventhough all the sex scenes were fabricated for legal...
Into the dark woods
Still looking at the process of writing - exploring atmosphere, themes and feelings through poetry at the beginning of a novel. This...
Process: I often start a novel with a series of poems. No calculated reason, it just happens that wa
This is one of The Dipping Pool poems. The Yellow Storm* For two days there had been a strange calm. Trees, ragged and half-stripped,...
Don't Look Now: Publishing
In 1846, Currer, Ellis and Acton Bell paid for publication of a collection of their poetry. It sold a handful of copies. Your worth as a...
World Book Day: How to Write One!
Don't do it, people, unless: a/ Someone has ALREADY given you at least a five figure sum b/ It will genuinely help save the world or c/...
Prototype
Dear Friends, Voila! The first public outing for the synopsis of The Dipping Pool . Nervous... 'The Dipping Pool is both prequel and...
St David's Day, Prejudice and Pride
Dydd Gwyl Dewi hapus i bawb! ( Sorry, Dafydd - I know these aren't Welsh Mountains...) I wish us all plenty of cawl, leeks, daffs. harp...
Rabies in Wales
So, this is how the research process goes: Look up the London Foundling Hospital; come across Hogarth being himself 'lampooned' for his...
