A thought struck me today: and I’m going to have a go here at thinking it through. I’m thinking about that later life phase: those (hopefully) special times when we are free of responsibilities (or freer, at least); when availability of time is not an issue. What do people think about doing in retirement? Travel …
Category archives: Writing
Archiving
Call it spring cleaning. Call it that desire that sets in, with the arrival of the new year, to sweep clean. (Or perhaps just to find homes for the new items that Christmas has brought.) Last year was all about moving items from room to room, as our building project was in full swing. A …
Inching my way
No, it’s not an advert for weigh loss at the start of the year. Nor is it stepping, gingerly, through ice and snow (my thoughts are with those in the US during freezing conditions). I’ve been a jogger (of sorts) for the last year and a bit. It’s to do with writing. Setting out for …
Lit Kid: in the beginning
It feels like the right thing to do to start with a post on beginnings – in this case, how to begin a children’s book. Long long ago (there’s one already), I remember a class at school where the teacher was trying to get us to identify how stories start. Here’s what we came up …
Moment or memoir?
Back in the early days of this blog, there was a lot of capturing of memories. I was trying to create an alternative to a Christmas newsletter, to tell the story of our year with a bit more detail (and hopefully some interest). In those far-off days of child-free travel – even solo travel – …