It’s been a while since I have posted. We have lived through a period that could be referred to as “interesting times”. In the last two months, my cousin died unexpectedly, my elderly aunt was placed on end of life care and subsequently died, my son was admitted to hospital for a day surgery on…

It’s been a while since I last posted. The grandkids have been off school for summer and that means lots of babysitting for us. The last few weeks have shot past, especially the last weekend before they returned to school. We took them to Center Parcs, as we do most years, and we walked for…

I’ve had a very busy couple of weeks. It’s birthday time in our house (most birthdays in our family happen over a short, few weeks), so I’ve been eating for seventeen. Also, I’ve had several social events to attend. The most recent was a reunion of police cadets. It was lovely to see old friends…

Don’t get excited, the new arrivals are my author copies of Baby Blues and my new oven. At last I have a properly working oven! I’m very pleased with it. Now I can cook things without feeling like a cave dweller crouched before an open fire, guarding the food so the intense heat of the…

Well, the bathrooms are done at last and I am very pleased with them. My house still looks like a bomb site though. This weekend will be spent dusting and tidying. I discovered that our ensuite is not the dingy room I thought it was. It’s now light and bright and has the new vent…

Baby Blue is out today! I’m really excited. This is the third in my Blue Bird series and I’m rather pleased with it. ALSO my publishers have been kind enough to nominate me for a CWA dagger award. These are quite prestigious so it’s fingers and toes crossed. No time to sit back on my…

Week two of the bathroom rip out. Bathroom 1 is almost complete and Bathroom 2 is being demolished. We’ve been in this house for eight years and we never knew that the mirror in bathroom 2 had a light behind it. It was embedded into the wall so the mirror looked like an ordinary mirror.…

We’ve got builders in. We decided that both our ancient bathrooms needed to be replaced, so we spent a few months trailing around bathroom showrooms oohing and aahing over various suites then working out how much it would be to have our bathrooms done like that. It seems I have expensive tastes. Anyway, we finally…

I had a lovely morning chatting to Steve about Baby Blues on Friday. As usual, I was made very welcome and I enjoyed listening to the music. I like the radio, it reaches parts other media can’t. Someone driving, at work, or just doing the housework can listen in. Try watching telly at work, or…

I had a thought whilst I was working on book 4. Sam has said something and is expected to apologise, however, she is not sorry for what she said. She is sorry that the other person was offended. She apologises for the hurt, but the other person refuses to accept the apology because she isn’t…