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Category Archives: Devon
Running away from it all
A friend of mine said recently – “It’s not too bad a time for writers – they can disappear into their own heads”. That’s true up to a point. I’m re-writing and tidying Jigsaw Island on the advice of my … Continue reading
Posted in Britain under Lockdown, Contemporary Women's Fiction, Devon, Fiction, Greek Islands, Health Care, Humour, Leros, Life on the edge, new writing, NHS, Personal, Writing
Tagged contemporary Fiction, Fiction, Greece, Greek Islands, holiday reading, Jigsaw Island, Leros, new novel, new writing, Writing
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Beside the seaside…
Doing my own final edit of Jigsaw Island before passing it on to the professionals, I am lost in my mind’s eye with memories such as this – Leros, September 2018… Whereas, from our garden today, this is the view… … Continue reading
Posted in Art, Contemporary Women's Fiction, Devon, Greek Islands, Humour, Leros, Personal, Writing
Tagged Jigsaw Island
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Sunday
– is the day I never know what to do with – including writing grammatical sentences. It’s a hangover, I think, from early childhood when, once a week, the awful prospect of SUNDAY SCHOOL faced me. As if it were … Continue reading
Posted in biography, Desperation, Devon, Education, Humour, Life on the edge, Personal, Religion, Writers, Writing, Young Adult
Tagged Humour, Religion
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What I was watching when I should have been (re)writing…
Martyn and I took a stroll down into Dawlish yesterday and look what we saw… a monochrome study but for the red beaks. There are now at least six adult black swans on Dawlish Water – and three nests, one … Continue reading
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Performance art in Torbay – The Tale
It was much more than that. For three weeks in September The Tale took its mobile audience through memorabilia, sea trips, promenade and venue based performance art, sound installations and the spoken word provided by the young people of Torbay. … Continue reading
Posted in Art, Devon, Personal
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Wasn’t what I was looking for…
Went for an early morning walk for inspiration this morning (up on the cliff is the apartment block where I live). The waves were significant – magnificent! There was seaweed everywhere, driftwood, two dead jellyfish and other marine life body … Continue reading
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Deathly mist driftin’ Daw-lishwards, m’dears
Don’t look too bad, do it? But t’were a darkly time on the number eleven trundling back from the bright Spring sunshine o’ Torquay to the darkling world o’ Dawlish. We were going’ along fine an’ happy like, right up … Continue reading
Posted in Contemporary Women's Fiction, Desperation, Devon, Humour, Life on the edge, Personal, Writing
Tagged Lynne McVernon, Mummerset, murder most foul, new novel, Women writers
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I LOVE TEIGNMOUTH!
Last week, browsing in W H Smith, I heard someone singing – not humming – singing Diamonds Are Forever. Not the usual W H Smith experience. Paying for my newspaper, I asked the lady manager if she was the singer. … Continue reading
