This has been a full and interesting week. I have received some moving emails in response to M E and Me. One person, among other things found the memoir comforting – and said it reflected so many of her experiences. Her husband has suffered from M E for a long time. Another person, a long-since […]
I have been really anxious in the last day or two. The numbers of people ordering my little ebook have increased daily. I keep taking out the paper copy, re-reading it, noticing the hundred places where an extra word would help. Or a sentence. Or even half a page. After all, the thing is short. […]
M E & Me is now available as an ebook online. Many thanks to John Wheatley for amazing help and support. John Wheatley, who has written and published a number of books, most of them extremely well-researched historical novels, is not only a friend of a friend – but happens to have been English and […]
I`m not sure how often, if at all I have referred to M E, since I began blogging. I have had it, or something like it twice. Or perhaps three times. No need to go into detail, as I have already done this in a 20,000 word memoir which I have called M E and […]
I have noted, and complained about the almost ubiquitous tendency on the part of mainly male writers, to start the tales they want to tell by `killing off` the mother of the plot. Certainly, had I specialized in English, and done a PhD, I would have explored this paradigm in my research! Last night I […]
In parallel with lockdown, I stopped blogging. No idea why. In a period like this, talking to the air, sending words out there, is surely a very human thing to do? Perhaps I was stopped in my tracks because so many of my blogs have included comments on plays I have seen. It isn`t as […]
Well not exactly. Turns out there is one more story for the collection. It has a title, The Purple Rug, and has written itself in the course of four or five days. Now I am really ready to present the collection of thirteen stories. Oh, and the first one, previously called The Man on the […]
I`ve been really busy finishing first one, then another short story. The current story – this time I am certain – will be the last in the collection I will be putting together soon. But in London there is always plenty to do and see. We tend to put plays first, music second, and galleries […]
Last week I saw The Tyler Sisters by Alexandra Wood at Hampstead Downstairs. Last night I saw The Delights of Dogs and the Problems of People, written by and starring Rosalind Blessed – at the Old Red Lion. The Tyler Sisters was directed by Abigail Graham, Dogs and People by Caroline Devlin. Plays by women, […]
There is the famous play. There is me, and my sisters. There is the play The Tyler Sisters which we are going to see this evening. At Hampstead Theatre. Directed by Abigail Graham. I`m getting into the swing of 2020 by working on a new short story, not about sisters, but about a character I […]