Meet The Author – Wellington Library
Writing may be a solitary occupation at times, but not all of the time. Today, I was part of Wellington Festival’s Meet The Author event. A group of us (what is...
Category: Blog from the Borders
A Numbers Game
Publishing is a numbers game. When a book is published, nobody really knows how many copies it will sell. They might be able to guess a rough figure during its ...
Are You A Pre-Loader, Or An Empty-Stomacher?
If there’s one thing that Ludlow does well, it’s food. Local food. Well, food from the immediate environs of Shropshire, Herefordshire, Worcestershire, Gloucest...
NAWGFest Gala Dinner
Last weekend I was at NAWGFest17, an excellent writers’ conference run by the National Association of Writers’ Groups. Saturday evening is Gala Dinn...
Snapper Simon puts Church Stretton on the Map
After a wet and soggy day yesterday, it was glorious to be able to get up onto Ragleth Hill this morning. Some blue skies could be spotted and it was warm in th...
Obliterated Snapper
It may say 30th June on the calendar, but it hasn’t felt like June for nearly a week now. And BBC Midland’s Today weather presenter Rebecca Wood com...
Free Range Borders
When is a free-range egg, not a free-range egg? When it’s the wrong side of the border. I know they like to speak Welsh in Wales, and English in London, but som...
All Change
Put a border somewhere and there will come a point when it needs to be crossed. Put two different governments in charge of life on either side of that border an...