How often do you stop and look up at the sky? While I was hanging out the washing today, I looked up…

I am a frustrated fiction writer. Not very unusual, most of us feel we have a book inside us. My problem is I know I can write, I just lack “oomph” to sit down and put my ideas on…

One of my favourite ways to spend a day off when we’re in Cumbria is wandering along Cockermouth Main St (in fact I…

Nature Nurtures Me

Nature Nurtures Me

When I was a child, my dad would often disappear for walks. occasionally he’d…

The Undersong

Lost, forgotten words fascinate me. At university I took a course in dialect maps…