Moorgate is a London Underground station used by thousands of people every day – but not all of it is on view. I’m fascinated by abandoned and underground spaces so a tour of the abandoned Old Moorgate underground station was… Continue Reading →
The first thing I said on approaching Penrhyn Castle was ‘It looks like something from Game of Thrones.’ It hasn’t actually been used in any filming, but walking through it makes you feel a bit like you’re in a movie…. Continue Reading →
I love an old building with proper history – something grittier than a fine country house (they have their place, but “working” buildings have more interesting stories). Beaumaris Gaol on the Isle of Anglesey in North Wales didn’t function as… Continue Reading →
Thomas Hardy was a world-renowned writer with deep connections to Dorset, although his books were set in the fictional county of Wessex, inhabited by the rural country folk he’d grown up with. And while his ashes may lie in Westminster… Continue Reading →
Films about writing are rather common. Whether they be about a real-life famous author or fictional one, writers pop up in movies more often than you’d think. So what can films about writing teach us, actual writers. Read on to… Continue Reading →
Ok, so writers aren’t this big homogenous group who all think and act the same way, but I’m fairly certain there will be something in this list that you (or the writer in your life) will recognise. The following list… Continue Reading →
New Year’s resolutions – love them or hate them, they come up every year. The idea of turning over a new leaf for a new year appeals to me as a writer. So each year I’ll try and put a… Continue Reading →
“Suddenly a hot gleam of sunlight fell upon the white cottages, with their grey steaming roofs and little scraps of garden courtyard, and lighting up the wings of the gorgeous butterflies which fluttered from the woodland down to the garden.”… Continue Reading →
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