Brief Encounters in Timor Leste
When visiting other countries it is only courteous to respect local people and ask their permission before taking their photographs, and to recognise that in many places the majority simply do not want to be photographed. The people of Timor Leste are an exception. Seeing you with a large camera, they will often invite you […]
Invisible College Gin Now Available!
How cool is this? A bespoke bottle of gin, distilled by Adnams to include my preferred botanicals and named after my YA trilogy! So how did this come to be produced? My daughter Emily, proprietor of the respected and popular Bristol Bites food blog, entered a competition to create your own gin...and she was the […]
August 2017: The Beginning of Autumn
I'm sure that autumn arrives a month earlier than it used to. On my early morning walk today, the first of August, there were definite signs. I was pleased that my secret supply of wild raspberries was not completely exhausted. These are hidden in a remote part of the local woods that not many know […]