Making Stories: Paris (2)
Our second day in Paris dawned exactly as every other residential school trip dawns: to the sound of multiple alarms on different students’ phones being muffled by pillows, smothered with a sleepy...
View ArticleQuiet Success
I finished the third draft of The Quiet Ones. I was going to write this post two days ago, because that was when I thought I’d finished, but it’s just as well I didn’t, because while on a long train...
View ArticleIntroducing Blodeuwedd
I have a new friend. I say friend, but really our relationship is far deeper and more complex than that, impossible to define with the limitations of social language. Not a friend, not a sibling, not a...
View ArticleDragons In The Ferns (With Bonus Ducks)
I’m back from my holiday in Derbyshire, where I was reminded of my complete dependance on WiFi by the utter lack of it. Not sure if the North of England just doesn’t go in for publicly accessibly WiFi...
View ArticleVictor Hugo In An Adventure With Interior Design
Before I start, I’d like to apologise to Gideon Defoe for unashamedly ripping off the titles of his The Pirates! In An Adventure With… books. I recently read The Pirates! In An Adventure With The...
View ArticleHistory Breeds Fiction
For those who missed my last post, I’ve been on a camp this week called Re-Fresh, and while I’m not going to talk about it in detail, I thought I’d draw on some of the experiences that stood out....
View ArticleTeenage Selfies (TCWT)
This is not my usual kind of post. This is for this month’s Teens Can Write Too! blog chain, and is one of the most challenging prompts we’ve ever had. Prompt: “Use pictures and individual words to...
View ArticleHere There Are Ghosts
When I walk through the college gardens at night it seems indubitable that there are ghosts there. Maybe ghosts is the wrong word. Memories — imprints of people who were once here, and are now gone....
View ArticleYep, I’m Back At Uni
Things that have happened in the three days I’ve been back at university: I lay down for a quick rest on Sunday afternoon because my shoulders were aching. Two hours later I was woken by a student from...
View ArticleAdventures In Aberdeen
Let me take this opportunity to reassure you that my silence this past week hasn’t been because Charley and I were wreaking untold havoc on the city of Aberdeen, but simply because I couldn’t bring...
View ArticleLooking Ahead #goals
So. As promised, time to look at my goals and resolutions for 2016, in order that my failure to meet them can be public. Yay! (I’m kidding… sort of. I always set very unrealistic goals, and life always...
View ArticleASNaCs on tour
This week, I went to Wales with the Anglo-Saxon, Norse and Celtic department, or rather, the ASNaC society (student-run, rather than staff). We were based in Cardiff, and visited a number of castles...
View ArticlePitch Wars And Walking Tours
Quite often, when I don’t blog for a while it’s because I haven’t got anything to say. On this occasion it’s the opposite — it’s been a busy couple of weeks, as people who follow me on Twitter will...
View ArticleVictor Hugo In An Adventure With Interior Design
Before I start, I’d like to apologise to Gideon Defoe for unashamedly ripping off the titles of his The Pirates! In An Adventure With… books. I recently read The Pirates! In An Adventure With The...
View ArticleHistory Breeds Fiction
For those who missed my last post, I’ve been on a camp this week called Re-Fresh, and while I’m not going to talk about it in detail, I thought I’d draw on some of the experiences that stood out....
View ArticleTeenage Selfies (TCWT)
This is not my usual kind of post. This is for this month’s Teens Can Write Too! blog chain, and is one of the most challenging prompts we’ve ever had. Prompt: “Use pictures and individual words to...
View ArticleHere There Are Ghosts
When I walk through the college gardens at night it seems indubitable that there are ghosts there. Maybe ghosts is the wrong word. Memories — imprints of people who were once here, and are now gone....
View ArticleYep, I’m Back At Uni
Things that have happened in the three days I’ve been back at university: I lay down for a quick rest on Sunday afternoon because my shoulders were aching. Two hours later I was woken by a student from...
View ArticleAdventures In Aberdeen
Let me take this opportunity to reassure you that my silence this past week hasn’t been because Charley and I were wreaking untold havoc on the city of Aberdeen, but simply because I couldn’t bring...
View ArticleLooking Ahead #goals
So. As promised, time to look at my goals and resolutions for 2016, in order that my failure to meet them can be public. Yay! (I’m kidding… sort of. I always set very unrealistic goals, and life always...
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