I love painting and drawing and would like to make more time for it. I am very much an amateur at it but that’s fine! Sometimes it’s nice to approach something with a sense...

Lovely sunny weather here recently….my wee patio garden looks quite lush and perky. Sat out re-reading ‘Paradise News’ by David Lodge for a while yesterday. Highly recommend that book, funny, humane and intimate. Put...

If you are in the mood for being read to you might like to click on this podcast link. Podcast Jho Harris of podcasts.ie kindly interviewed me some years ago and also asked me...

I drew this wee drawing in cartoon drawing evening classes last year and coloured it in, somewhat quickly, the other day. Love drawing, though I’m clearly no expert at it! ‘Let yourselves be silently...

Want to make a toasted cheese and tomato sandwich for lunch…might also have a posh M&S chocolate and stem ginger biscuit…but wanted to ‘post’ this photo first. Thanks to Philip Casey for doing something...

We’ve been having some lovely summery weather in Ireland lately…great for pleasant seaside strolls. My little patio garden looks quite tropical in places! Very glad that I bought some wee tomato plants at a...

My short story ‘Dancing Naked On The Lawn’ has been included in a collection of stories called ‘Holiday Fling’. I want to add the link to Amazon… Wonder if I click on the ‘link’...

I CAN’T BELIEVE I’LL be forty next month. Forty seems something you should be ready for – not something that lands smug and like-it-or not in your life – along with Gillian McKeith. Bruce...

Bus trip yesterday was greatly enhanced by my decision to draw people quickly. Went to a cartooning class last year and must practice drawing. Did drawing somewhat furtively in small notebook…don’t think ‘models’ noticed....

Here is a bit of light reading about writing. The ‘tips’ could be longer and there could be more of them…but it isn’t that kind of blog. The tips are more like little nudges;...