The Northern Lights? What the travel agents don't tell you.
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Love comes in many guises - and they are all here from self-love, murder and mayhem to true love and romance. All profits from the sale of this book go to premature babies charities. In 2019 it raised £125 for BLISS, Prem baby charity.
Read MoreBEYOND PROMISES is the story of Charlie's life, and his love for the woman he never forgot which eclipsed everything else in his existence for over fifty years.
Read MoreA holiday from hell? Maybe ... but if this holiday is what hell is, then it must be a very interesting place. After a disastrous start to their holiday the four main characters start to crack and the secrets they are hiding begin to unravel. but it's obvious from the beginning that age does not always bring wisdom.
Read MoreResearch Using IT offers a step-by-step explanation of how to research and how a computer can make the whole process a lot easier. The book assumes no previous experience
Read MoreBanished from Snowsville until he can find the mysterious 'Big E', Pierre the penguin finds himself in Spain, but whether that brings him nearer his quest to return home remains to be seen.
Read MoreA little mouse, a very little mouse, a very brave little mouse who does battle with a big evil rat called Big Jake! But who wins?
Read MoreA little boy. A little magic. And he's in the scary land of dinosaurs. Can he rescue his two cousins? Aah ... all is revealed when young Archie does battle with the prehistoric beasts.
Read MoreWhat I needed was a man. Not just any man. He had to be tall (ish), fairly good-looking (from the back!) and slightly tanned. A male model would have been good, but I didn’t have one of those. Somehow I just had to get a man for my book cover ... so this is what I did.
Read MoreWe authors are a funny lot. We store experiences for half a lifetime and then, somewhere out of the depths of our consciousness we give them birth again, without even realising that they have been buried all along. However, it's the notebook that helps ...
Read MoreThe other day I read a novice writer expressing concern that if he shared his ideas on social media someone would copy, but in time all writers learn that it's not copying that is the problem, it's getting anyone to actually read your work in the first place.
Read MoreHang in there. Keep writing. It will come together I promise you ...
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Read MoreThe Northern Lights? What the travel agents don't tell you.
Read MoreBergen, socks and alcohol - it's all here - pop in and have a read.
Read MoreOur 'post' boat carried passengers, mail and supplies to over thirty ports along the Norwegian Coastline. Most of these ports were inaccessible to large commercial cruise liners, so there would be no heaving crowds departing from other boats as we docked.
Read MoreThe paper said optimistically that Alesund was a wonderful place to enjoy the views. That might have been true, had I been able to look upwards without a whole bucket of freezing rainwater sloshing me in the face. (Well, that’s what it felt like).
Read MoreWe eventually arrived where the boat should have been docked according to the map … it wasn’t there! It was nowhere in to be seen. Panic! We had no way of knowing which direction to go and we didn’t have oodles of time to get it wrong
Read MoreEventually we did dock. It took well over two hours and we only then had an hour on land to explore, but Tromso, Tromso, I love you — it didn’t rain! Wow! There was wind, yes. Snow, yes, but at long last there was no driving rain to force me to keep my head bowed.
Read MoreI am alarmed and the feeling grows with each passing hour. Bravado dinner where all I saw was worried faces was followed by a batten-down-the-hatches assault in our cabin. Anything breakable or heavy was stowed away or put on the floor. Hub said ‘maybe we should keep our clothes on, in case we need to respond rapidly to the emergency alarm signals’. (He was joking, wasn’t he?)
Read MoreThe Captain called “Listen! At last! The Northern Lights are on the left side of the ship.” My goodness it was like the opening doors at the January sales. Within seconds there was a restaurant full of tables laden with hot food, but no patrons to be seen anywhere.
Read MoreCovid19 flying anxiety
Read MoreOutlets, food
Read MoreSocial distancing and passenger behaviour
Read MoreRefreshments, masks , disinfectant wipes and social distancing
Read MoreArrival in the UK, Government form and self-quarantine reminder
Read MoreBus, train and ... would I do it again?
Read MoreHAVE YOU EVER DREAMED OF LIVING IN SPAIN? I'm going to spill the beans and tell you what it’s like to buy a house in Spain, and live between the Costa Blanca and Oxfordshire. I'll reveal some of the amusing scrapes that I got myself into when joining the Spanish equivalent of the WI and I guarantee that you are bound to laugh. I'll also include the how and why of writing a novel and give you inspirational tips on getting started. So do join me at Wantage Library on Friday, 25th January, 6.30–7.30 pm. I'd love to see you.
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