Yoga teacher training

Those 'sad, pathetic morons' who hide behind the anonymity of social media were out in force today. I don’t know what they said because I...

What a day. I met my producer at Claridges today. Our first viewing of Madeleine as a final cut. I got there early so took the chance to...

Choosing your stories

Treasured adventures with my father

Truth is in the eye of the beholder. It is not the same as fact. One person’s truth is another’s ‘false news’. There is no one truth. I...

My voice is louder in writing than it is in speaking. It's easier to express myself on the page. Well, at least that’s what I always thought

open or closed shuttered or free

When I first saw this Hemingway quote I couldn’t help feeling it made him sound a bit arrogant and smug. However, it also happens to be...

So, it’s finally arrived. My first New Year’s Eve alone in more than twenty years. In fact, now I come to think of it, it may be my first

How would your life story play out? Shakespeare famously described the world as a stage, and life as a play consisting of seven acts where e

Last February, I rediscovered an old friend in the Chamonix valley; Mont Joly. She (this mountain is definitely a she) rises tall and...

I often write late at night and have increasingly been disturbed by foxes. They really can be incredibly noisy. I see and hear them...

I’ve only just begun to live again after about ten years of simply surviving. I didn’t realise I was mourning all that time. But I was....

A skilled writer is not necessarily a great one. I believe it is the qualities writers possess, rather than just their skills, that make...

Great writing, like great music or art, is highly physical. Well, at least for me it is. I know I’ve written well when I feel utterly...

I read Eyeless in Gaza by Aldous Huxley many years ago and its title has stayed with me ever since. Gaza, in the sense of our...

My balance is much better when I don’t over-think it. I incorporate yoga into my daily life in lots of different ways, one of which is...

I’ve been quiet on here for a while. For the best of reasons. I’m concentrating on my novel which is taking up more and more of my time...

I’ve often wondered what it must be like to be an extra in a film. Extras, or supporting/background artistes to use the technical term,...