Another ten hours on trains, plus extra time on stations waiting for connections … another opportunity to read uninterrupted … what to take …? Ahhah! One of those books that seems to permanently slip down the to-be-read pile. A (Mann) Booker Prize winner. Sigh. Yep, I do try, but I often struggle with these big [...]
Wahey, Remember Remember is now officially launched – a mere three months after publication date. Last week, as I wrote my blog, you may remember, I was cooking wee delicacies for the nibbles (the very ones pictured below), and juggling several other competing demands (humdrum domestic as well as professional ones), wondering if I’d ever [...]
In the course of moving things about to accommodate several groups of guests, I’ve become aware of a number of largish objects which are cluttering up space in our house without too much in the way of useful returns. One is an exercise machine. It was bought at the time I started the sedentary life [...]
Wahey! I’ve just had a brand new experience. I’ve been up in Dundee at the teaching hospital, presenting prizes to medical students who participated in a creative writing competition. Me … awarding prizes! How grown-up is that?! Actually it was a particular pleasure, because the subject for the competition was ‘Ethics and Humanistic Values’- a [...]