He was a famous German composer. I was a young girl with an ear problem. And it didn’t matter how many Smarties I was given, I still hated having my ears syringed. The worse thing was, I really loved to play music. I played the recorder in the school assembly and took violin lessons. It […]
I’m certain most people in my profession would never admit to this… But I am because I can’t stand it any more. The unpalatable truth hiding in plain sight. Okay, deep breath. The truth is… I can’t write! My modifiers are often left dangling, I end sentences with conjunctions and I am a passive voice […]
The cold howling wind seemed like it would never stop. The wood burner in the ‘summer’ cottage we had hired for the winter in a tiny village in the foothills of the French Pyrenees was simply not up to the job at hand. But we were kept warm that freezing winter by the friendships we […]
