Tag Archives: travel writing

BBC short story cuts


I’ll admit to an ambition shall I? I’d really like one of my short stories read on BBC Radio 4. What’s more I’d like it read by Emma Thompson. How likely is that? Not very, perhaps, but the chances are … Continue reading →

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Clytha Castle

Posted on September 10, 2011 by

Clytha Castle has been on my list of places to stay for a long time – a folly in the best sense; it is a pinkish rendered, Gothick, castellated and turreted confection on a small hill in Monmouthshire – with … Continue reading →

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Tower, Train and Tree

Posted on August 26, 2011 by

Monday Bit late posting this been too busy to upload the photos! Having finished the opera, had the birthday party and packed totally inefficiently, we are off on holiday to the tiny village of Upper Arley, and our home for … Continue reading →

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Misty moisty morning

Posted on February 19, 2011 by

At risk of sounding like a weekending townie, I love the Limpley Stoke Valley. I even love the name.  My best girl, A, was born in Trowbridge and brought up in Bath and the surrounding area. Consequently I have native-by-proxy … Continue reading →

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London Particular

Posted on January 7, 2011 by

Sometimes I hate living in London, and sometimes I love it. In January rain it can feel as though it has turned its back and doesn’t want to know you, but it doesn’t take much to find a way through … Continue reading →

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Haunted by Fairy Tales

Posted on December 19, 2010 by

So I’m on a business trip in Germany, slightly reluctantly (too close to Christmas, weather turning bad) and I discover that Kassel, where I am at a meeting of a European Project is the home town of the Brothers Grimm.  … Continue reading →

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The Memling Triptych, Sint Jans Hospitaal, Brugge.

Posted on October 17, 2010 by

I wrote this in 2007 as part of an essay on silence for my coaching course. I am now completely hooked on Memling and have written a story based on his pictures; Portrait of The Artist’s Model as a Young … Continue reading →

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