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It’s a troubling time at the moment, and while the Government permits us to go outside and exercise, I shall continue to do my daily walk.
I was already aware of how lucky I am to live on the Welsh Borders, but the current Covid 19 shutdown is only bringing it to the fore. Exercising close to home is easy for me … I simply step out of my front door, turn right out of the gate and five minutes later, walking up the road, I cross a stile and I’m on open hillside.
Has your writing business come of age? Simon Whaley looks at when to get a business bank account.
We all remember our first time. It was 1989, I was 18, and I couldn’t believe what I was holding in my hands. (It was a postal order for £3.50, in case you were wondering.)
That was the payment for my first published piece – a word search puzzle. Little did I know then how that would be the first of many, many more payments.
Well, what can I say? Each year the number just keeps getting bigger. Thank you to everyone who’s bought a copy of my first book One Hundred Ways For A …
The latest issue of The People’s Friend magazine has my travel feature about Worcester.
The February 2020 issue of Writing Magazine is out now, and my Business of Writing column looks at how writers can organise their own booksignings in WHSmiths.
Out now in the February 2020 issue of Country Walking is my 7-mile wander around Lower Whitcliffe and Wheelers Vallets – just west of Ludlow.
It’s a gentle wander, perfect for taking slowly to explore the surrounding landscape, and offers some wonderful views, as well as the opportunity to spot some pretty impressive Victorian engineering.
Well, that was a surprise! A nice way to round off 2019 with a WeatherWatcher photo on the evening regional news forecast.
Issue 185 of The People’s Friend Special has just hit the newsstands, and it contains my feature on the Centre for Alternative Technology, near Machynlleth, Wales.
It really is one of those places that you have to visit for yourself, to get a greater understanding of what they do there. I was fortunate to visit back in June, when they were open to prospective post-graduates, who were looking to expanding their knowledge of sustainable building. Many of the potential post-graduates already had a degree in architecture, and were looking to augment their knowledge with gaining a greater understanding of how to make our buildings more sustainable for the future.
Snow! We didn’t have much, but there was enough in places on top of Ragleth Hill to feel like you’d trudged through it. It was one of those gorgeous days …
