Belated Happy New Year. 2021, I think it’s fair to say, wasn’t much of an improvement on the previous cruel year. Frustrating, disheartening and emotionally exhausting are the three words that best describe my hard and bumpy journey over the last twelve months. The brain […]
I think we can all agree 2020 was the year we will always remember but would rather forget. But it did happen. To press delete and erase the last twelve testing months from existence would be taking a step back not forwards on life’s path. […]
Hello 2020! I’m writing this three days later than intended, partly because it wouldn’t have been wise to mix my words with Baileys liqueur, and partly because today – on J.R.R. Tolkien’s twelfty-eighth birthday – it felt like a fitting time to mark the beginning […]
Here, in my little corner of Scotland, the world is calm, the sky is unusually blue and my head, for once, is clear on this glorious New Year’s Day. It’s a day of hopeful beginnings, where nothing is certain and anything is possible, bringing with […]
This is a quick update to let you know my blog will be going into hibernation for the winter. Over the next few months I’ll be pouring my heart and soul and every spare moment I can find into finishing the new draft of The […]
