Writing

Earlier this year I was short-listed for the national parenting blog awards, the MADs (Mums and Dads), and asked you to consider voting for me. It seems that out of the 50,000 nominations and votes received throughout the awards, enough of them had my name on to push me into the top slot, and I’m absolutely over […]

I’ve never worked from home before. At least, not on a long-term basis. I’ve had those days where I’ve solemnly informed my boss “I’ll be working from home today”, but he and I both knew that meant the nanny had called in sick and I’d be spending the day looking after three children and checking […]

I’m one of the organisers of a brand new literary festival in Chipping Norton, a beautiful Oxfordshire market town on the edge of the Cotswolds.  The town was recently made famous by the ‘Chipping Norton set’ involved in the phone hacking scandal.  I can assure you there’ll be none of that going on at the […]

With journalist Adam Edwards The Cotswold Life author lunch was just as it should have been; a delicious mix of writers old and new, independent booksellers and lovers of the region’s favourite magazine.  The Close Hotel, Tetbury, was the perfect setting with staff who couldn’t do enough for us.  I  sank my first champagne cocktail […]

You may recall that not long ago I started writing my second novel.  I launched into it with great gusto, but have had to put it to one side as there is something more pressing to do.  The rewriting of book one.  Anyone who believes that when they write ‘The End’ (metaphorically at least, we’re […]

2010 was a good year for More than Just a Mother.  The blog was shortlisted for The MADs awards in the funniest blog category, mentioned in The Times Online, on several radio stations and in countless places across the web.  More than Just a Mother now has over six hundred subscribers, with around ten thousand […]