Where to find inspiration All around you. A writer should always be on the look out for a story. You only have to keep your eyes, ears and mind open to all that is around you, to find something to inspire you – to set you off on a path of discovery through your writing.… Read More Writer’s Shed
Dee talks to shepherd and business mentor, Chris Farnsworth, for Wiltshire Magazine. It has just stopped raining and Chris Farnsworth is standing in the middle of a damp field in Bromham with his dog and a small flock of sheep. As he walks towards me I see that he is dressed in his trademark half-shepherd, half-businessman… Read More Raising the Baa
I picked up this postcard at an antiques fair because of the Wiltshire connection. The caption reads: Col: Cody & winning Biplane, Lark Hill. I knew the name Cody from Buffalo Bill but was there a connection to the Wild West? Samuel Franklin Cody (1861-1913) aka ‘the Colonel’ was a showman and aeronautical designer who… Read More Wiltshire Connections
SASH – Working together to make a difference. Our approach to preventing youth homelessness is thanks entirely to our volunteer ‘hosts’. Very pleased to hear that I was shortlisted in the 2014 short story competition run by SASH – Safe and Sound Homes, the charity ‘preventing youth homelessness’. My entry will be published in their… Read More Helping the Homeless with Words
From Etruscan bridgework and Phoenician false teeth and George Washington’s dental problems, to the identification in 1949, of one of the victims of Haigh, the Acid Bath Killer, by her false teeth which had resisted the action of the acid. Artist Gilbert Stuart, who did the original portrait of Washington on which the dollar bill… Read More Oddest book on my shelf
When I looked up at the ceiling in the Keats-Shelley House in Rome, this is what I saw. Words do fail you sometimes when you see something beautiful or extraordinary. It’s important to look and absorb the experience and later reflect on it. Stored away in your mind it may resurface when you least expect… Read More The last thing Keats saw before he died
