Writing

I was so tempted…

There was a recommendation here on wordpress about the National Novel Writing Month http://www.nanowrimo.org/ I have been seriously thinking about taking up the challenge but I just think I have too much else on this year. I have to finish and publish ‘Loving Judah’, I have my three children’s novels to prepare for publication, I need to start editing […]

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Writing a novel in a month… dare I?

Thanks to a WordPress blog, National Novel writing month has been drawn to my attention… http://4amwriter.com/2012/10/22/writers-start-your-engines/ I’ve read about it before but never more than vaguely contemplated doing it. However, having decided that ‘Loving Judah’ will be published on October 31st, maybe I should set myself a new challenge for November. I have decided my next published book will be ‘Night Vision’… but that comes from […]

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Reigate

  These charming nineteenth or early twentieth century photographs were taken by the famous Francis Frith of Reigate for the brewers, White, Tomkins and Courage, and I would guess they were on a calendar. Reigate was the nearest large town to Bletchingley where the Colgates had lived since the middle of the nineteenth century; these places would have been very familiar to them!

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The Silver Quill Blogger Award

First of all I’d like to thank Jeremy for nominating me for this award; I really appreciate it! Have a look at Jeremy’s page – you’ll love his poems and his photos: http://thesandcounty.wordpress.com/ So here goes: The rules for this award: If you choose to accept, are to paste the logo of this award on the top of your post. […]

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