See what you can find to inspire you in your writing within a ten-mile (rural), five-mile (town) or one-mile (city) radius from home. Read Dee’s Ten Miles from Home Diary Maybe you are travelling somewhere further afield. To work, to shop or to visit friends or relatives. Treat each journey as a new adventure. See… Read More Why not set yourself the Ten Miles from Home challenge?
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. ‘Write about what you… Read More Where to find inspiration
I recently bought this slim volume which records the evidence given to Parliament by a variety of people with commercial, agricultural and manufacturing interests, such as Mr. Michael Branston, Mr. Thomas Vesey – and others – Charles Ludlow Walker, Mayor of Bristol, George Stephenson of the Stockton and Darlington Railway. And, of course, evidence from… Read More Great Western Railway Bill 1834
The History of Paper Sacks, 100 Jahre Papiersackmaschinen und Papiersäcke published 1988, in what I imagine is a limited edition. It celebrates the work of Hermann Hölscher 1842-1913, inventor of the first triangle bag machine and Gustav Fischer 1850-1939, inventor of the first machine for cement sacks. Both went on to form companies which continued… Read More Possibly the dullest book on my shelf
October Damp and grey- not the best weather to be standing in a field in Bromham taking photos of sheep, and shepherd and business mentor, Chris Farnsworth. We talked about his work and the team-building and motivational course he runs. Are you a sheep, a sheep dog or a shepherd? You’ll have to read the… Read More 2011: a year of thatching, kittens, sheep, accordions, Camilla, recycling Scrabble, spinning and a partial eclipse
7/12/10 Crystal Magic Hoar frost has transformed the countryside into a beautiful world of sparkling white crystals. I stopped to take pictures near Beckhampton Stables looking across the downs where the horses exercise in the runs. If there were any there, they were lost in the early morning mist. 6/12/10 Call this cold weather I’m… Read More 2010: a year of Cranford, croissants, dogs, D’Arcy, knitting, finding missing persons & much more
