Saturday 2nd March 2024 Guidebook: 12.2 miles My Garmin: 14.3 miles Breakfast is delicious at the Chantry Hotel: fresh fruit with yoghurt and granola, followed by a full English, all…
Saturday 18th November 2023 Guidebook: 10.6 miles My Garmin: 14 miles (including labyrinth and getting a bit lost) After fuelling up with eggs and avocado on toast, I don my…
Friday 17th November 2023 My Garmin: 4.85 miles, including wandering around the town It’s been six months since the last day of my pilgrimage, which is a much longer gap…
Sunday 13th May 2023 Guidebook: About 12 miles My Garmin/steps: No idea, but it felt long enough! It’s a relaxed start to day four of my Walsingham Camino. I enjoy…
Saturday 12 May 2023 Guidebook: 18.4 miles Iphone: 49,576 steps Before embarking on day three of my Walsingham Camino, I spend Friday night at the Lee Valley Youth Hostel near…
Tuesday 18th April 2023 Guidebook: 10.5 miles My Garmin: 11.3 miles Day two of my walk to Walsingham takes me from Waltham Abbey to Stanstead Abbotts in Hertfordshire. I need…
Sunday 5th March 2023 Guidebook: 17.7 miles My Garmin: 19.5 miles I take the train to Fenchurch Street station to begin my London to Walsingham Camino on a chilly Sunday…
London to Walsingham Camino. I saw the book in the gift shop and knew I wanted to do it. Walsingham is one of my favourite places. A sleepy English village…
The foetal curl of your spine And your silky, floppy head Warm in my hand. Slate eyes blinking open, unfocused, Onto the blur of the world, You hiccup and yawn…
The best part of my day is in the early morning. I got into the habit of rising early when the children were small. It was the only time I…
I visited a nuclear power station last week. We were on holiday in Suffolk, and the weather was uninspiring. Being science geeks, we headed to Sizewell B to check out…
People say I’m crazy, but I love swimming outdoors. Preferably in a lake, or a river, or the sea. It might be a bit chilly, or muddy, but nothing beats…
D’you ever feel like you’ve got knots in your life? Not nice, tidy functional knots like the ones Boy Scouts tie. I’m thinking about big, gnarly, lumpy knots. The sort…
Warning: this blog and the poem it includes may upset some people. Abortion has been in the news recently, with plenty of people sharing their opinions on my social media…
These are worrying times, aren’t they? Since Putin started rattling his nuclear sabre, I've been struggling with war anxiety. I’ve had some difficult nights, tossing and sweating and waking up…
It sounded like an insane idea, trying to write 50,000 words of a new novel in the month of November. My life was busy enough already, wasn’t it? I was…
As Martha passed her first birthday and continued to grow, our focus was increasingly on her communication and development. Her health was generally good now. She had occasional heart check-ups…
Christmas was approaching fast. Martha would soon be one year old. Outwardly we were doing ok. Martha was robust and thriving now. We were enjoying a busy round of weekly…
It was a strange summer of waiting. We took Martha to the Royal Brompton Hospital in London where she was reviewed in their outpatient clinic. We were told we would…
A changeling is a fairy, troll or elf left in a cradle in place of a human infant stolen by the fairies. The alien creature exchanged for the lost baby…
I had other plans for that day. The baby wasn’t due for another two weeks. It was a Saturday morning, and I was going to take Jerome and Verity, aged…
I have always loved the Bible. It’s been part of my life for longer than I can remember. Recently I had the idea of trying to re-tell Bible stories in…
I have just published my first book, thanks to Covid 19! 2020 has been a year of challenges for us all. It has been a year of dealing with disappointment…
Whose fault will it be if Christmas is cancelled this year, the Government’s or the people’s? I keep seeing memes like this on social media. Trying to apportion blame for…
‘We have nothing to learn from these people’ I recently read Unfollow, the autobiography of Megan Phelps-Roper. It was my most inspirational read this year. Megan’s beloved grandfather was the…
“I teach people to let themselves be creative” – Julia Cameron Several months ago, just before the Coronavirus lockdown, my coach Rosemary suggested I have a look at “The Artist’s…
Number one on my bucket list is my heartfelt desire to complete the long version of the Camino de Santiago. Five years ago I walked the final 100 kilometres of…
You are probably familiar with the legend of Pandora’s box. When it was opened, plagues and terrors were unleashed upon humanity. Only hope remained within. We could all do with…
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