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Three Men and a Husband 4 Nov 2011 | 09:39 pm
Last week I received the files for the front cover of my novel, Three Men and a Husband. Thanks to Sam Wall, who created the design. Then came the task of setting up my CreateSpace account. I had alre...
Violins, books and practice 1 Oct 2011 | 10:55 pm
A few years ago I met the delightful author Katie Fforde. I got together with a bunch of friends, we escaped to Snowdonia and Katie ran a writing weekend for us. We had a ball. The only problem was, K...
Breathing life into town centres 19 Sep 2011 | 04:15 am
Our local rag is The Macclesfield Express. I was disappointed but not surprised to read that Mary Portas declined a visit to Macclesfield. After all why should she give her views on how to revamp the ...
It’s time to blog again 24 Aug 2011 | 07:06 am
I’ve taken a break from blogging. It’s been a productive break as I’ve written 83,000 words of my novel. That leaves approximately another three chapters to go. Nearly there, then? Mmm… not quite. Tho...
Why ‘bullied’ Kate quit 5 Apr 2011 | 06:23 am
If you read the Mail on Sunday you couldn’t have missed the double page spread about Kate Middleton and her two terms at Downe House, the elite girls boarding school. She left mid-academic year becaus...
The Audacity of Linking Up 28 Mar 2011 | 04:38 am
Last night I made the stupid error of checking my email before I went to bed. What a mistake. And doubly so as we were to lose an hour of sleep, so every minute of the night counted. What I found in m...
Sick in body and mind 8 Mar 2011 | 06:43 am
I haven’t posted in a long time. That’s because: a) I haven’t been well – physically b) I haven’t been well – mentally – because I’ve been caught up in a crazy violin hunt! Both are on-going sagas ...
Betrayal – Grandad gave his abbey to the people…how can council shut people out? 29 Jan 2011 | 01:14 am
The Nottingham Evening Post ran the proposed closure of Newstead Abbey as its lead story yesterday. As I’ve posted on my Eccentric Entrepreneur blog, Sir Julien would have split his sides reading the ...
Betrayal – Grandad gave his abbey to the people…how can council shut people out? 28 Jan 2011 | 08:14 pm
The Nottingham Evening Post ran the proposed closure of Newstead Abbey as its lead story yesterday. As I’ve posted on my Eccentric Entrepreneur blog, Sir Julien would have split his sides reading the ...
A relaxing day out at ….Tesco? 27 Jan 2011 | 01:30 am
As Tesco announce the opening of 70 in-store beauty salons by the end of 2011, are we about to experience another shift in retail? Experience is a concept that independent garden centres grasped twent...
