2024: Highlights, Holidays and Books
Hi folks, Hope you’ve got your presents wrapped, your cards written and your sprouts on! If you haven’t, take a moment to have a breather, pour a Baileys and sit down. Here’s my yearly round up of goodly things, news and recommended reads. I’ll gloss over the first part of the year as I wasn’t well […]
Take Three Books: Georgia Hill
I thought I’d add mine. I found it really hard to narrow my choice down to only three, so there’s a bit of cheating going on … What book would I like to have written? Book One I’m tempted to say Pride and Prejudice but, in my own (extremely humble) way, I feel I’m writing […]
Brain stretching at the Hay Festival
Breaking your souvenir Hay mug the week before you go to the festival doesn’t augur well. Neither does accidentally running over a rabbit on the way. So, being the suspicious kind, it was a nervous drive to Hay on Wye for the annual festival of literature, music and all goodly things. Thankfully, all went well […]
Ghosts, ghoulies and a Hamburg art gallery.
‘There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, Than are dreamt of in your philosophy.’ So said Hamlet, who had just cause to say so, as the ghost of his father had just appeared before him. Before Christmas, on a bitterly cold Sunday afternoon, I had the pleasure of listening to Barbara Erskine speak […]
