Guess what? I’ve written a book. It’s 128,932 words long, it took four years to write (four long years of backache, breakdowns and bawling on Sunny’s shoulder), it’s hands-down the best thing I’ve ever written and I’ve got two agents who are kind of interested. …But, I don’t like to talk about it. In fact, […]
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6 Spring Things I’m Craving
This time of year always feels like a push. Whether that’s the sun trying to force its way through the grey blanket overhead, the Daffodils pushing up through the mud, or even if it’s just the desperation to shed the layers and slip into something a little more summery 🙂 Yeah, I’m gutted we haven’t seen […]
I picked up Helen Oyeyemi’s short story collection, What is Not Yours is Not Yours, just before Christmas. I love short stories – particularly ones that dip their toes into magical realism – and having finished Angela Carter’s The Bloody Chamber (…for the third time…), I was on the prowl for something new. Can’t lie, […]
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2017 Goals
Happy New Year! I don’t usually make New Years Resolutions, not out loud anyway. Every year when my Mum asks me, my go-to comeback is the oh so not hilarious “My resolution is to quit making resolutions.” Ha. I’m firmly of the belief that a new year doesn’t necessarily need a new me. That being said, […]
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Goodbye 2016
I was going to write a Year in Review post but I decided to leave it to a selection of my favourite photographs from 2016 to tell that story instead. It’s been a busy year of moving houses, decorating houses, retracing old steps, indulging in plenty of amazing “bad” food and muddy walks through woods and along beaches. Despite […]
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