Bake A Book Jacket!
One of the lovely presents my niece Ruth Wynne-Jones gave me this Christmas was a very special biscuit decorated to look like the jacket of one of my novels! (The second paperback printing of...
Author: Grace
Some Helpful Words About Christmas by Elizabeth Lesser
Elizabeth Lesser is co-founder and senior advisor of the Omega Institute and the author of Broken Open: How Difficult Times Can Help Us Grow and The Seeker’s Guide. You can find out more about...
Masking tape, Christmas and a big turf fire
I don’t have a great relationship with Sellotape. I know that it is theoretically a useful product…but if I use it to wrap Christmas presents…that festive paper is usually pretty shiny and slithery anyway….the...
Midnight In Paris and the Sandwich
Went to see Woody Allen’s ‘Midnight In Paris’ the other day. It was an afternoon showing. Snuck into the cinema after the lights had gone down with a very large sandwich I’d just purchased....
Guilty Pleasures
Found myself watching the X Factor last weekend. There, I’ve admitted it. At least yesterday evening I only watched part of it…was more interested in dear Stephen Fry’s programme ‘Planet Word’. I gave myself...
The writing process and the corrugated boiler flue
‘A bird doesn’t sing because it has an answer, it sings because it has a song.’ Maya Angelou I really really enjoyed watching ‘Who Do You Think You Are?’ on the telly the other...
Porcelain Unicorn
The Porcelain Unicorn is a BEAUTIFUL prize-winning three minute film and a fabulous example of concise effective storytelling. It was mentioned in The Irish Times recently. Well worth a look. http://url.ie/d05w Warm wishes, Grace
Frog flees literary gathering – Honey Morenzo blogspot
My name is Honey Morenzo and I’ve been asked to occasionally contribute to this website. I’m not getting paid for my contributions but I hope that it will give me some practice in writing...
Forays to Limerick
My childhood trips to the local metropolis of Limerick were tinged with adventure. Even getting there felt slightly precarious because my father was a nervous driver and the journey started out with a prayer....
Knitting By The Lake
‘I am a forty eight year old woman who loves books and I have read zillions in my life. My husband has never heard me laugh out loud as much or cried as I...
Wimbledon and the goat
Many summers ago I watched Wimbledon with a goat. I was on a camping holiday in Cornwall. The rustic place where we were staying had various animals wandering around the place…including the outhouse type...
Men and sheds
According to a survey conducted by the DIY chain B&Q more than a quarter of men questioned confessed to using their garden shed as a refuge, and a third admitted to visiting it more...
The Cosy AGA
The old rambling rectory in which I spent much of my childhood had a large AGA cooker in the kitchen. The kitchen was always warm and cosy because of it and its presence was...
Great Advice from J.K. Rowling
It seems that Rowling might never have written her fabulous Harry Potter books if she had been more successful early on in life. She got enough points to go to university and in a...
The Royal Wedding
‘I’d hate to be a royal,’ a woman is announcing to a friend in the seat in front of me. She makes it sound as if being a royal were once, somehow, an option....
