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The island of Bute, off the West Coast of Scotland

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April 17, 2025

Beautiful Bute

Jack and I have just spent a glorious long weekend in beautiful Bute, Jack’s homeland off the west coast of…

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Writing

March 22, 2025

Curating Words

Curating Walking Routes T he dictionary definition of the verb ‘to curate’ is: ‘to pull together, sift through, and select…

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Adventure Life Travel

March 12, 2025

Rain Stops Play

Rain kept our lives on hold all through January and most of February and for a while, I began to…

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My Reading List

March 3, 2025

Grey Bees by Andrey Kurkov

Grey Bees by Andrey Kurkov is about life in a war zone, specifically the zone of Donbas which in 2014,…

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Writing

February 18, 2025

Writing Endings in Trilogies

It strikes me that there is a world of difference between writing endings in a stand-alone novel and writing endings…

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My Reading List

January 29, 2025

Orbital by Samantha Harvey

When I took Orbital by Samantha Harvey with me to read on a train journey, Jack said, “You’ll have finished…

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Life

January 13, 2025

The Funeral

On the day of the funeral, snow was falling thickly, blanketing the graves and headstones in a soft white down…

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Life

December 5, 2024

How to Complain

I seem to spend a lot of my time nowadays finding out how to complain. I never used to be…

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My Reading List

November 13, 2024

James by Percival Everett

James by Percival Everett is the retelling of a story first published in 1884 – Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain…

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Writing

November 7, 2024

Having Writer’s Doubt

I seem to be having a minor attack of writer’s doubt. I am just over halfway through the first draft…

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Beautiful Bute

Curating Words

Rain Stops Play

Grey Bees by Andrey Kurkov

Writing Endings in Trilogies

Orbital by Samantha Harvey

The Funeral

How to Complain

James by Percival Everett

Having Writer’s Doubt

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