Hooray! I got the keypad working on my own! So I can write in bed again. It's temperamental, though, so if you see a word that looks as ...

Well, Pete the computer guy says it's not cat hair that's making my keyboard stick: I need a new keyboard. But the laptop has passe...

The keyboard of my laptop doesn't work on the left hand side and I think it's because it's congested with cat hairs. I usually ...

Today on the blog I have a guest: Christine Poulson , the crime writer. She is going to answer some questions about significant books in he...

Don’t watch or listen to the news. Read it once. This means your horror/despair at the state of the world is not renewed throughout the d...

Here I am, waiting for feedback  from two writer friends  on the second draft of my new novel. I have cleared the boring admin tasks in my i...

Long-time readers of my blog will know that my novel BUT I TOLD YOU LAST YEAR THAT I LOVED YOU was written from my personal experience of b...

I am too tired to write, so here are some November photographs from my archives. The gate next to our house: The view in the oth...

Last weekend I was depressed at the state of the world. This week I've been angry and have been firing off letters to those in power.  ...

I'm too angry to blog. I have just written two separate letters to my MP about 1/ child refugees and the UK Government's reneging o...

Last week a good friend told me she was overwhelmed by the news: it made her anxious, stressed and depressed. I gave her some glib reply a...

What do you think of SatNavs? Do you use one? Dave has no innate sense of direction, so when he was given one a few years ago it revolutio...

It is perhaps the last mild and still autumn day before the weather changes, and although I  have a blog post in mind, I want to be out in t...

It's been my birthday week and I have spent most of it in Wensleydale with my brothers and sisters. This is four of us.  I don...

First, you need to know that I prefer cinema to theatre, but also that I have been to the opera before. I've seen a Mozart opera - I ca...

Except for the very ending, which I am going to write when I have read it through.

There are so many sorrows in the world  - Puerto Rico, Myanmar, Las Vegas, refugees and asylum seekers all over the world - a thousand blog...

I just finished reading American Wife by Curtis Sittenfeld. It's a fictionalised account of Laura Bush's life. I bought it on the ...