Writing challenges

I used to have a lot of imagination. Creative writing was one of my favourite things at junior school; when I was a child my dad used to bring his work computer home at the weekends and I would spend hours writing stories about anything and everything. But somehow over the years I seem to [...]

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Prince reveals childhood epilepsy – BBC

I’ve often said that I wished a celebrity would “come out” as having epilepsy – given that 456,000 or one in every 131 people in the UK has epilepsy there must be at least one – but this wasn’t quite what I had in mind… I just came across this story on the BBC website [...]

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Eight-legged freak

I have just had the fright of my life! I don’t want to give the impression that I am an arachnophobe – in fact, I am the chief spider-catcher in our house. Catcher being the operative word – not for me a quick swipe with a newspaper or whack with a shoe. Nope, I catch [...]

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Long time no see!

Gosh, it’s been a while. I haven’t logged on to this blog for almost three months. There’s no real reason why – I suppose my muse must have left me, as my friend L put it. I’ve also been a lot busier at work (a good thing!) which meant that I was less inclined to [...]

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