Blue Monday? Be Happy!
Today is Blue Monday. Apparently, the third Monday in January is the one when we’re all at our lowest. It’s still some way to pay day, the weather is usually awful, the days still dark and our New Year Resolutions are well and truly broken. Certainly, when I was teaching, the beginning of the January […]
A-wassailing we will go!
Hope your decorations are down? Twelfth Night has been and gone! I live in Herefordshire, surrounded by fruit orchards, especially apple orchards. For a while the apple was the symbol of the county and rightly so; the fruit is an important cash crop. I’ve mentioned before that it’s a traditional sort of place and one […]
2016 – off to a great start!
I hope you’ve all had a good Christmas and New Year. I don’t know about your house but this one always feels so much fresher and cleaner when all the cards and decorations have been tidied away. I’m a bit superstitious though, so I’ve left the wreath up on the front door. With all the […]
Happy New Year!
Wherever you are and however you’re celebrating, I hope you have a wonderful time. May 2016 bring you health, wealth, happiness and a huge pile of books! Love, Georgia x
A Very Happy Christmas!
What a year! The book of my heart was published, I experimented with self-publishing and got my short stories out and the house has gone on the market. Such a lot has happened and it doesn’t seem five minutes since I was wishing you all a Happy Christmas 2014. No writer is a writer without […]
The Ouled Nail Dancers of Algeria
Please welcome the delightful Marie Laval onto the blog. Hi Marie, it’s lovely to have you here. Explain about The Ouled Nail Dancers of Algeria, I’ve never come across them before. THE OULED NAIL DANCERS OF ALGERIA You may wonder why I’m writing a post about Algeria’s infamous Ouled Nail dancers when I am supposed […]
Alison Morton and Roma Nova Central
Please welcome the talented Alison Morton onto the writing cave feature. Over to you Alison, tell us all! I hope you didn’t expect a tidy and sleek office? This is Roma Nova central, a messy, working office. My desk is covered with paper, books, notes, pens, files, cup of coffee or tea, clock, plugged in […]
Well well, it’s Benedict Cumberbatch – and Jan Ellis!
We’ve got Jan Ellis here today, sharing her writing cave in the beautiful city of Wells. Benedict Cumberbatch fans sit up and take note! Hello Georgia and thank you for inviting me to tell you about my writing space. Readers of my novellas might be disappointed to learn that I don’t compose in a bijou French […]