It’s Monday 22nd February 2021 and in my part of the world we have been living under some form of restriction, either local or national, since 23rd March 2020. Currently we have been in full lockdown since Christmas and it looks like there will be at least two more weeks before anything is relaxed. Now, I’m not complaining. I am…
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This is the most common question that any author is asked. Where do you get your ideas? Mine are mainly a product of what I have absorbed as I go through my daily life (which is why the coronavirus lockdown has been particularly tricky. There’s a limit to how much you can absorb when your life is so very quiet.)…
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It’s the last day of school for my kids, the end of the weirdest term that I can ever remember. Normally they would be celebrating with cups of hot chocolate in a café followed by the exchange of secret Santa gifts and time spent lolling around in bedrooms laughing about stuff that’s funny when you’re a teenager. But not this…
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I keep a record of the weather each day. It’s not a very sophisticated system, an icon scribbled in my bullet journal, but I do it religiously. So, I know that for 21 days in November and 13 days so far in December it has either rained or been total grey cloud cover where I live. All my favourite walks…
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I sang Christmas carols today for the first time in 2020. For context, in a normal year I spend most of December singing carols in various settings – churches, hospitals, schools, old folks’ homes. Not this year, for obvious reasons. And this is why today’s little sing was so precious. Six singers, outside, at two metres distance and singing carols…
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