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Many thanks to Tracy Fells, for her kind words about The Positively Productive Writer and my feature in the February issue of Writing magazine, on her The Literary Pig blog.
I think today’s snow has taken a few by surprise. It wasn’t a lot, but it was enough to make an impact on some photos, so I uploaded one to my BBC WeatherWatchers account. Then I was sitting eating my lunch, watching the BBC’s One o’clock News, and as the camera panned out for the national forecast I could see a picture that looked familiar…
Shefali used one of my WeatherWatcher photos today to show that while Staffordshire had lots of snow, Shropshire had all the sunshine.
Storm Gertrude is coming … so here’s my photo of the calm before Getrude, taken from Ragleth Hill today, and used on BBC Midlands Today.
Exciting times! The Icelandic edition of One Hundred Ways For A Dog To Train Its Human arrived in the post today.
It’s going to be another cold night, so BBC Midlands Today used my WeatherWatcher photo taken earlier on my walk today of the Burway closed due to snow and ice.
Click over to the Writers Bureau’s blog, where I discuss one of the many perks of being a writer – the surprises this wonderful writing world can give us. Read …
Following on from my feature in the June 2015 issue of Writers’ Forum about how to take an author photo, one of the biggest moans publishers and magazines have is …
Last Wednesday evening I attended a public meeting organised by the Support Group of my local library, and I was delighted to see so many people there. Over 200 people forced themselves into the hall to hear what was said. And emotions ran high. Whilst this isn’t always a good thing, because it detracts from the actual consultation process, it was an indication of the support that exists in the town for the library.
