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
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
