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  • My favourite pen and notebook

    My favourite pen and notebook

    For years my favourite rollerball pen has been the Mitsubishi Vision Elite and it still holds a very dear place in my heart. Recently, however, I’ve been enticed by the fine-nibbed charms of the Mitsubishi Eye Needle.  I think Andrew brought one home from work and I liked it so much I bought a pack Read more

  • What I did over Half-Term

    What I did over Half-Term

    There’s been a two-week break from the poetry classes I taught at Trowbridge Town Hall so I’ve been on half-term.  This is the first time poetry has been on offer at the Town Hall – scriptwriting classes were available last year and there have been, and still are, drawing classes on the programme.  My classes have Read more

  • The chaos of an untidied garden

    The chaos of an untidied garden

    Day Four of NaBloPoMo and NanoPoblano and the Weekly Photo Challenge at WordPress has arrived to save the day.  Hurray! (how am I going to make it to day 30?!) Chaos is this week’s photo challenge theme, a state of mind, being and household arrangements never far from my life (I live with two teenagers).  Nor Read more

  • Artists’ Café at Trowbridge Town Hall

    Artists’ Café at Trowbridge Town Hall

    This morning I popped into the Artists’ Café at Trowbridge Town Hall, a monthly meeting open to artists and other creatives and a space to meet and chat informally about creative news, ideas, projects and opportunities.  For those of you who haven’t visited, Trowbridge Town Hall has, for the past five years, been developing into a Read more

  • Hair Appointment

    Hair Appointment

    Day Two of National Blog Posting Month and I have a hair appointment.  Has to be done, much as I’d love to be the kind of person who can whip out a pair of hairdressing scissors and a box of hair dye and emerge from my bathroom half an hour later looking like a person Read more

  • Movember: My husband’s story

    Movember: My husband’s story

    On the first day of National Blog Posting Month, #NaBloPoMo and #NanoPoBlano (hello, everyone!), I wasn’t expecting to be writing a post about my husband, Andrew Horsfall.  But the first face I saw when I went online this morning was his smiling face on Facebook telling me he was doing Movember again this year.  Before you wonder Read more