Family Stories

Strange names

A friend who has just finished reading my novel, ‘Flipside’ commented that “at least there aren’t any strange names in it”, which is true, David,Steve, Denise, Danny, Kiran…  and I have to admit for several reasons I do sometimes have unusual names in my stories. However, in my defence, I don’t think any of them […]

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Early morning visitor

I had a visitor this morning; this cat, Smirnoff, owns our neighbours and thinks he also owns us! he heard me in the kitchen while I was making a cup of tea and asked if he could come in for some love. He came up and helped me write my blog this morning, had a […]

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Lois

Growing up, I was the only person I knew called Lois; my aunty had it as a middle name, and my great-grandmother was the ‘original’ Lois, but she died in 1930… long before I was born!! When we moved to the west country when i was 16, there was another girl lower down the school […]

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