Yorkshire

Sometimes in you go to a museum or gallery because you know what is going to be displayed; sometimes you go to see a particular artist, maybe knowing pieces of his or her work. It’s wonderful to see in real life pictures and sculptures that you have only previously seen in books or magazines or as reproductions, […]

Poems by LoisDecember 9, 2012

The Shout

Simon Armitage is a local lad, well, local to us when we lived in the north of England.He comes from across the Pennine Hills In Lancashire (the people of those hills, by the way had their own ancient language until well after the Norman Conquest) Simon was born in Marsden, a pretty little town in Yorkshire, in 1963 and was a probation officer. […]

Parkin!!

Food by LoisNovember 8, 2012November 8, 2012

Unusual names…

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Weeding… and not just in the garden!

My novels by LoisSeptember 27, 2012September 13, 2018

Writing by LoisAugust 27, 2012September 13, 2018

Step away from your character! Step away!

Busy editing ‘Loving Judah’ which I wrote several years ago and I can now see that when I wrote it I ‘became’ Aislin McManus… whoa! I am not Aislin… she’s a completely different person, married to Peter and living in Yorkshire. This has partly happened because although not in the first person, the whole narrative […]