My posts have been erratic these past few months. We moved house in July and our new home has had to be totally renovated. This past week has been hectic with new windows installed, door removed, doors installed, windowsills fitted and and the remainder of the plastering completed. My head is frazzled. And it’s been […]
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At last! The round peg finds the round hole.
It seems such a long time since I last posted on my blog, probably because it is. The last time I wrote we were just about to move house and since then I have had to squeeze my writing into little gaps here and there. Gradually, I have been to claw back small pockets of […]
The Waterway Girls by Milly Adams – Blog Tour
War Lands them in the same boat. Can they all pull together? I’m thrilled to welcome Milly Adams to my blog today to chat about her latest novel, The Waterway Girls. October 1943, West London Nineteen-year-old Polly Holmes is leaving poor bI’m thrilled to welcome Milly Adams to my blog today to chat about her […]
Moving House – Moving Memories
I’ve just finished reading Venetia Road by Patricia Putt Nicoll. Pat lives in Colehill, Dorset and contributed some of her stories and articles to the local Community Library project Life on the Hill, which was published last year. Pat writes of her first impressions of the house her parents bought during the war, no. 9 […]
At Long Last Love – An Interview with Milly Adams
At Long Last Love It’s July 1942, and twenty-three year old nightclub singer Kate Watson has made a home for herself in bombed-blitzed London. A motley crew of friends has replaced the family she’s not spoken to in years. That is until the evening Kate’s sister Sarah walks back into her life. Sarah has a […]
How to make your dreams come true
When my little sister was littler still she liked coming home from school for her lunch. I say lunch because I’m an adopted southerner but ‘oop north we call it dinner – and we call dinner, tea. Yes, confusing I know. Story of my life. This was in the days when you could do such […]