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2014 was one of those years when everything comes together, "all ducks in a row" as a friend of mine says. We had two great holid...

Today we took Ana to her first ever cinema trip. While this is probably deserving of a post in itself, it's not actually what I want to...

On the street, I try to smile at other parents. At the woman who is pushing an extra large, heavy looking pram in the rain. Inside the pr...

Earlier today, Ana walked into the kitchen in floods of tears. "Sacha said we're not best friends any more!" "Sweethea...

Recently I wrote about my short play 'The Bargain' having won a competition run by the Touring Consortium Theatre Company. As a res...

Our little man is two. It was a fun day, filled with lots of children, laughter, noise and an incredible amount of emotion. You try to...

Hot of the press, an exciting piece of news about my writing! Recently I have been involved with a new playwrights' group within the ...

The days of summer are over. Ana's room was very dark tonight, as we lay next to each other on her bed, both of us very silent. She w...

"For some two million years, despite being the same species of animal as ourselves, man was a success. He had evolved from apehood to ...

This weekend we went to Liverpool. Liverpool is not across the world, but if you are stuck on a motorway with two little people in the ba...

I seem to have gone from the life of stay-at-home-mother, with not much more to challenge me than a few play dates and some stubborn housew...

I have neglected my blog, recently. Well, it's not even so much that I have neglected it. To say that would suggest that I have someh...

Yesterday I met my new course leader. This autumn I will be starting a Masters degree in Creative Writing at the university in our town, ...

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Melanie is ten and she lives in a prison. Every day she has lessons with various teachers, Miss Justineau being her favourite. During the c...

So we decided to have another day out, on a Tuesday :-) Thanks to Wayne's flexible working hours, we are able to enjoy the summer wea...

Today is our 7th wedding anniversary and I feel that a post about our wedding is in order. If for no other reason, then at least as an excu...

All my adult life I have been a worrier. I worried about things which I might have some control over, like how I would perform in exam...

There are days when I feel an urgent need to write. I don’t feel that I can wait until the usual 9pm, when the children are asleep and eve...

Last Sunday, we went into nature. Not a park, not a tourist farm, not some domesticated meadow on the edge of town, but Proper Natur...