Isn’t it weird how Covid 19 hit China just before the Lunar New Year, and now it’s managed to cancel St Patrick’s Day in Ireland? Nothing says ‘The End of The World’ louder than the pubs closing in Ireland! As
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Going the Social Distance
I woke up this morning at 7 am, sneezed twice, and convinced myself that I had COVID-19 again. Not that I’ve ever had COVID-19 (at least not that I know of), but every ache/pain/cough/splutter over the last couple of weeks
The Titanic Hotel
I spent some of the best years of my teaching career at Rathmore Grammar School in Belfast, still have strong ties with the school, and have lifelong friendships with my old teaching colleagues, so when the school decided to have
The Stray Sod at the Armagh Museum
It was with great delight that I accepted an invitation for Flash Fiction Armagh to have another event at the Armagh County Museum. The folks there are just so amazing to deal with and when they explained their idea for
March to November
Because this time of year is the climax of my book March to November, I’m running a free kindle download promotion until 3rd November 2019. It’s free on all the Amazon sites worldwide but here are the links to download
The ABC of Good Taste
It might be akin to organising a booze up in a brewery, but the ABC council’s spectacular festival celebrating food and cider in the Orchard County (or the Armagh, Banbridge and Criagavon borough to be exact) deserves every award it
Conversations and Orchards
I’ve been a busy bee this summer, weeding and writing – bet ya can’t say that quickly without dropping the ‘r’ in writing. Determined to push my ‘work in progress’ to the next stage, I got the head down and
Book Review: “Love in an Undead Age” by A. M. Geever
It’s here! Finally out for public consumption and you really need to consume this. Many years ago, when I was starting out on my own writing journey, I was fortunate to meet the author Anne Geever and even luckier to
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Flash Fiction Armagh at the John Hewitt Society International Summer School 2019
This time last year, I was thrilled to be awarded a bursary to the John Hewitt International Summer School that takes place annually in Armagh. It was an extraordinary experience. Congratulations to all those awarded bursaries this year – my
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Jumping into June
I’m pinching myself… have been for a few months now, because if I’m honest, I’m living the kind of ‘writerly’ life I always dreamed of. Okay, there’s no 5-book-deal with Penguin … yet … there may never be, but this