Virginia Rodrigues — Uma Histiria De Ifa When I listen to this song, given that I understand nothing of the lyrics, my mind wanders in imaginary directions. I feel the words and music, and imagine what it must be about. Often …
Weekend Writing Warriors #8sentences
The Weekend Writing Warriors share either 8 sentences over the weekend. Here are mine from the start of a historical novella set in Victorian London called Lily & the Mechanic. Lily thinks our hero is actually a mechanic because he fixed the wheel of …
#SexySnippet
#SexySnippets 12th October 2014 Every weekend, a group of us sign up at The Nuthouse Scribblers blog and post a sexy snippet: 7 sentences from a work in progress. Here’s mine for the week again from Lily and the Mechanic. It’s a historical …
After all this time
I don’t need to be with you to love you. It just complicated things, that wash of everyday life. For some it is the place that adds richness But for us it wasn’t. We never really rubbed well in that …
Haruki Murakami
After an blog glitch making her comment disappear into the ether. Robyn from Elder Park Book Reviews said the following which I found very moving and wanted to add here: ‘A good friend of mine turned me on to Murakami …
Weekend Writing Warriors #8sentences
The Weekend Writing Warriors share either 8 sentences over the weekend. Here are mine from the start of a historical novella set in Victorian London called Lily & the Mechanic. In the last few snippets, Lily entered the Bond Street Bookshop and its illicit sexshop underneath. She …
#SexySnippet
#SexySnippets 4th Oct 2014 Every weekend, a group of us sign up at The Nuthouse Scribblers blog and post a sexy snippet: 7 sentences from a work in progress. Here’s mine for the week again from Lily and the Mechanic. It’s a historical …
Laura Marling ‘Master Hunter’
Introduced to me by a very talented writer Nicolette Hugo. Watch out for her in 2015 … her stories are hot!!
The role of Beauty
Thomas Dodd is a photographic artist and his current collection is called All Bodies Are Beautiful. I was attracted to his work a couple of years ago. He expresses the feminine so powerfully and uses mythic and symbolic imagery. I like …
Random Musings
What is it about this dark underbelly of emotion that gets me every time? I love slipping on my gumboots and rugging up to go out into this landscape. I think wandering into the areas of love, romance, heartbreak, loss, hope, …
The Four Chambers of The Heart ~ Part 1.
I fell from a hole in my heart And you caught me. A wounded woman, perhaps even broken. You were right where I needed you to be, Under the sky as I came plummeting down. You pulled me so …
Esmerelda
Poor me, She fell beneath the wheels to help me up. This song and its clip has really started to haunt me. The music is very moody and I am a sucker for moody stuff for sure. But what really hooked …
Escher Creating the “Snakes” Woodcut
This is worth a watch, only about 2 minutes long and shows the stages that Escher went through to create “Snakes”. My experience of his work tends to be contemplative. He is very successful at getting us to look at something …
Weekend Writing Warriors #8sentences
The Weekend Writing Warriors share either 8 sentences over the weekend. Here are mine from the start of a historical novella set in Victorian London called Lily & the Mechanic. In the last few snippets, Lily entered the Bond Street Bookshop and its illicit sexshop underneath. She …
#MySexySaturday & #SexySnippet
#MySexySaturday 20th September & #SexySnippets 21st September 2014 Every weekend, a group of us sign up at My Sexy Saturday and some of us at The Nuthouse Scribblers blog and post a sexy snippet: 7 sentences from a work in progress. Here’s …