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  • A little taste of freedom.

    I have been busy the last couple of days, tidying my bedroom. It needed it! I wanted to put all my writing together on a shelf, and I could not for the life of me find my "Dorrie" book. I cleared the floor, most of the c…

  • The Mikado: The Characters

    Yes, The Mikado has been over for a week and it's time to let it go and start concentrating on our next show: Calamity Jane. Yet I don't quite feel able to say goodbye to what has been the highlight of my singing career …

  • The Mikado Diaries and other sundries

    Firstly my apologies for not having updated in a while. I was just reading a woman's wartime diaries and it encouraged me to blog again about what I'm doing. Thought I would try to keep a running diary about our next sho…

  • Finished another week at Smith's. Still enjoying it, but only really when I'm upstairs. I had to cover Steph's shift this afternoon as she was sick and I decided that though I am willing to work downstairs (stationary an…

  • I am struggling with the fact that I am writing my book in retrospect about a time before I was born. The thing that is bothering me is, "How much of what we know now did they know then?" Did they know the extent of what…

  • Research

    I am dipping into a book by Juliet Gardiner about the Second World War that is very interesting and helpful towards my writing. It tells you exactly when cinemas opened after being closed for fear of people being trapped…

  • It's been a while so I thought I'd update you as best I can. I've started my voluntary job, which is OK, nice people, relaxed atmosphere but I'm shy so need some more time to get to know them. I've applied to various thi…

  • My weekend and other stuff.

    I went back to Kingston for the weekend, where I met up with my lovely friend Pip and swapped some story and poetry exerpts. I even got to read some of The Story, so felt very honoured indeed. We had children's meals at …

  • Have read a few books since last time I wrote - The Sixth Wife by Susannah Dunn about Katherine Parr (Henry VIII's last wife, the one who "survived") which was OK but I wasn't overly impressed with, Orphans of the Storm …

  • Sigh

    What was it I said yesterday? Not to write another wartime story? And what am I about to do?Yes, the dream-idea has sprouted enough of a plot to get a-scribbling. If only I could think of the first line.

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