I’ve just moved into a disabled friendly annex which I’ve had built onto the back of my daughter and son-in-law’s house. It’s brilliant with a wet room and all open plan with plenty of space to move my wheelchair around. My daughter’s cat, Alex, loves it and especially likes to make himself comfy on my …
Imagine my delight when I saw the above picture of my book, The Belly Dancer, on Facebook! It was posted by Karen Durie, a friend of my son-in-law. She’d bought it some time ago and saved it to read on her Turkish holiday. I’ve done some research and the photo is of the Xanadu Island …
My appearance at Musselburgh Library for Book Week Scotland went well, with several people turning up, despite it being mid-week in the afternoon. The audience of mainly ladies of a certain age loved hearing about my Indian adventures. In particular they enjoyed the piece about Krishna, my handsome, 20-year-old, cycle rickshaw driver in Jaipur, Rajasthan. … Continue reading
About three weeks ago my daughter took the clippers to my hair, which was driving me mad. Our hairdressers are still closed but I don’t need one now! I guess I’ll colour it when it gets a bit longer but apparently silvery grey is all the rage. Watch this space for details of my latest … Continue reading
This is the view from my corner room in Roodlands Hospital across to the Lammermuir Hills. I love the white May blossom on the hawthorn hedges right outside my window. A distant rape seed field is glowing in the sunshine, a windmill lazily turning in the breeze. This was our hottest day of the year … Continue reading
When my local pool was shut on 20/3/20, as a result of the U.K. lockdown due to the COVID-19 worldwide pandemic, I knew I was in trouble. With MS it’s important that I regularly stretch my muscles. Swimming and exercising in the pool kept me flexible. I exercise at home but it’s not the same. … Continue reading
So, here in Scotland like the rest of the world we’re still in partial lockdown. Still, it was Easter last weekend and we had sunshine. My grandsons had a hunt for Easter eggs in our garden and on Sunday my son-in-law did a great BBQ. We are so fortunate to have a garden. I moved … Continue reading
One of the bizarre effects of the Coronavirus pandemic is the panic buying of toilet rolls, leading to empty supermarket shelves, at least here in the U.K. I’ll let you into a secret- I don’t need toilet rolls! ‘How’s that?’ I hear you cry. I have a hose by my loo and, hey presto, I … Continue reading
At this challenging time I’m sure that many of us are turning to reading books to escape for a while. I’ve just finished The Penguin Lessons, by Tom Michell, which I can thoroughly recommend. It’s a true story set mainly in Argentina and describes some wonderful detail about that country, which I’ve never visited. Tom, … Continue reading
I’ve just finished reading Three Daughters of Eve by the Turkish writer, Elif Shafak. She’s one of my favourite authors and her website has some wonderful quotes from her books https://www.elifsafak.com.tr/home. This book tells the story of Peri, a Turkish girl who goes to study at Oxford University. It focuses on her time as a … Continue reading
This year I am studying an advanced creative writing course through the Open University. This course builds on the writing techniques I learned about in their creative writing course. I am finding out about writing screenplays, radio plays and stage plays, as well as developing my writing skills (hopefully!) My fantasy is to write a … Continue reading
I’m going to try posting the picture of Alex again (see previous blog) as WordPress kindly stuck an ad over it. Yuk. Continue reading
