The Ardenna Crossing – Available now on Amazon

Hi everyone, For my friends and family who already know this, I’m sorry this will be popping up in your news feeds again today. 5 Years ago, I finally started doing what I’d always wanted to do – writing a novel. After a year of writing and several years of editing and agonising over things, […]

That thought – a poem

Ever had that thought? The one that wakes you in the middle of the night and won’t let you go? Here’s my (kind of) poem about it. Doesn’t happen often but boy when it does!! That Thought 4am – that thought 4.10am – still there Still there, next to me, taking the duvet. 5.03am – […]

In Valhalla – a Twin Peaks poem

My first Twin Peaks poem in a long while. I was inspired by Maja Ljunggren’s wonderful image, ‘Friends’. I pictured Coop and Harry meeting up after hours for a coffee and a slice of pie. Then it hit me. They never would have. With Cooper lost and Harry growing old and getting ill, the possibility […]

Casting Dune 2 – Anya Taylor-Joy – initial reaction

Wow! What a piece of news. Seeing Anya Taylor-Joy at the London Premiere of Dune Part 2, along with the confirmation that she plays a secret role in the film, is very exciting news. March 1st is creeping up and there’s not long to wait now before seeing the conclusion of Denis Villeneuve’s adaptation of […]

The Pothole – a poem

So, there’s a yawning chasm of a pothole down my road. Every day, I have to remember to go around it in case I drive the car into it and come out in Australia. Anyway, short of other ideas, and with half an hour to spare, I wrote this. Hole in the world, A little […]

Ardenna Crossing Update – February 2024

Hello everyone. I had a chance to add some action to my sequel a couple of weeks ago and again today. It feels good to be getting somewhere at last after a long time in the wilderness agonising about the plot and where it was going. Now I’m back in the flow again, throwing Paul […]

Rewatching Angel (1999-2004)

It’s been a number of years since I sat down and watched this. I’ve probably not touched it since before 2012. I was about to do a whole run through of this and Buffy just before all the unpleasant allegations against Joss Whedon emerged. I shelved that idea and spent quite a long time sitting […]

They Wear the Shame – a poem

Hi everyone, It’s been a lean few months where I haven’t managed to write anything. No progress on my book for ages and not even more than a tiny poem to show. Until now! I was in Essex for Christmas, in the town where one Matthew Hopkins did his horrible work drowning and torturing women […]

Refuge – a poem

Hi everyone, It’s National Poetry Day next week and the theme is ‘refuge’. So, I put together a little string of cinquains to mark the day. Hope you enjoy them. Refuge A home, That’s all they need, A place to sit and think, Untroubled for some short moments, By that. That thing, That’s always there, […]

Ardenna Crossing Update!!

Hi everyone, So, I’m coming to the end of the summer holidays but I’m so excited to report on the progress I’ve made with Book 2 of The Ardenna Crossing. With a couple of days in Reading library (my writing retreat of choice) and a couple more days I was lucky enough to get to […]

Thanks, Darcie!

It was great to see one of my old pupils a couple of weeks ago. I was back at my old school for the summer fair and she came along to say hello (and some other really nice things). I was really blown away and I wanted to prove that what I told her was […]