Here is the support material and the resources for my video about Wildflowers in Shropshire Folklore on the #Folk Community Group’s Facebook page and Youtube channel. Available from 12 June, …
Ancient Trees – Writing prompts and Resources
Ancient Trees Resource Pack: to be used in conjunction with the video on the Facebook Folk Community Group site https://tinyurl.com/y7yps43s The Shelton Oak by David Parkes – 19th century Fairy Folk by …
Digging up the Graveyard
“Once people come here, they never leave. It is the graveyard of ambition.” When I first came to live in Shropshire, I heard this quite a lot. Now that I’ve …
A Tempest for our times
I do hope that all my readers are staying well. I imagine that, like me, many of you are feeling hemmed in by the worries and restrictions of this time. …
A light in the darkness
A week of isolation (in the broadest sense, as I am sharing the property with 3 teenagers, a dog, 4 chickens – and even, occasionally, my doctor husband) is already …
Reading through Lockdown
Who knows when our lives will feel ‘normal’ again? I suspect that there are certain things we will never, ever take for granted in the future. A drink with friends …
Bad Guys Make Good Plots
Recently I was asked to contribute a guest post to the fabulous ‘History Girls’ Blog. This is a group of best-selling writers of historical content, fiction, non-fiction, for children and …
A ship leaves port – the launch of ‘All the Winding World’
At the very beginning of writing ‘All the Winding World’, I knew there would be maritime elements in the story. So I popped down to my old University town, Southampton. …
Waiting for ‘All the Winding World’
As I write this, 500 copies of my second novel are in transit, due to arrive at my house on a pallet sometime tomorrow. I think this must feel a …
Poetic Encounters #1 – A guest post by Andrew Howe – Visual Artist
Since the start of the year, I’ve been collaborating with visual artist Andrew Howe, as part of the Encounters Exhibition at the Visual Arts Network Gallery in Shrewsbury, which opened on …
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