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 [...]
When I was little I had an irritating habit of starting things and then getting bored and moving on to something else, leaving a scattering of unfinished projects in my wake. Then as I grew up I swung the other way and became quite obsessionally Mastermind-ish (‘I’ve started so I’ll finish’). Witness my compulsion to [...]
Well, it’s been a weird experience bringing out Remember Remember. After missing publication day because I was with my mother in hospital in Devon, I returned home for a few days to a pile of copies of the book. I felt strangely disconnected from it. And there was no space to just savour the moment. [...]
Hmm. It’s been a strange and disquieting week down in Devon. As you know, I’ve spent years immersed in the arguments and theories around medical ethics. I’ve also been my mother’s nominated proxy for medical matters for five years, during which time I’ve steered her safely through a number of decisions relating to her health [...]
Wow! I’m so impressed by the skill of some writers. Amazing imagination, incredible ability to hold strands of plots together and weave them into a coherent pattern, stunning empathy with characters experiencing life’s challenges, facility with words that takes me deep into the world they’ve created. I’m particularly thinking today of Peter James whose Dead [...]
Well, what an amazing beginning to the year 2010! Temperatures up here have sunk to minus thirteen – minus sixteen a bit further north. It’s snowed every day except one for three weeks now. We’ve slipped and slithered to a few events – the ones that weren’t cancelled – but the roads have been deadly. [...]
Have you noticed? My blog has a brand new name: VelvetEthics. I’m rather pleased with it, I must confess. Big thanks to my website designer for her skill and for patient tweaking. So, it’s Christmas Eve. I’ve been immersed in the editing of Remember Remember this week – a brain-splitting session with my courageous editor [...]
Are you crammed full with festive feelings? Singing as you drape the tinsel? Or are you struggling to remember where you put the list of freezer-foods you absolutely must buy before Aunt Maud descends in five-and-a-quarter hours time? Or going crazy with wee Tommy’s repeated demands to know how many times he’s got to clean [...]
Thursday: blog-day. I try to listen to Question Time on Thursdays too so if I haven’t posted my blog by then, the sight of David Dimbleby prompts me. But this week I’ll be far away visiting my disabled mother, so I’m leaving a message for DJ to post on my behalf. If you’re reading this, [...]