Another nice Sunday stroll

20 Sep 2022

Off to Ambleside this week, for a walk through countryside that's just tinged with the first autumn colour, even on a damp misty morning with the clouds looming over the…

Two find some ‘treasure’

24 Aug 2022

Not real treasure, obviously! But perhaps the next best thing. During the last heatwave we were struggling for somewhere cooler to go and hit on GB Antiques at Lancaster, which…

A Sunny Sunday Stroll

4 Aug 2022

After a drizzly start on Sunday morning the clouds rolled back to be replaced by glorious sunshine. We jumped in the car and dashed over to Ambleside, still reasonably early…

Taking the High Road

11 Jul 2022

Oh, how fascinating: there's going to be an archaeological excavation along High Street - the mountain and the presumed Roman road that runs up and over it - this August.…

Rainbow Snippets: Trench Warfare

2 Jul 2022

Here's my latest offering for the Rainbow Snippets Facebook group, which encourages its members to post six lines from one of their books and then link back to it on…

Two go to a Roman exhibition

22 Jun 2022

I'd been trying to get to Carlisle ever since my friend Les Morris first told me about a Roman exhibition at the city's Tullie House museum. Les is a member…

Two visit Frogmorton Towers

3 Jun 20223 Jun 2022

This is a tease, really, because Frogmorton Towers is the fictional setting for my book December Roses so we couldn't possibly have visited it. But we did the next best…

May newsletter imminent!

26 May 2022

My new monthly newsletter is due out later today. This month, as well as the usual update on my work-in-progress, it features a free story and lots of stuff about…

Gardening – as nature intended?

7 May 2022

I didn't realise that Word Naked Gardening Day was a 'thing' until very recently - and I suspect it isn't much of a thing at all this far north in…

Read around the Rainbow: Weird Research

29 Apr 202229 Apr 2022

When this topic was first suggested, I wasn’t sure I could write about it. Most of my books are contemporary, with backdrops that I’m reasonably familiar with (archaeology, old buildings)…