A few years ago, I fell in love with The Lost Words - a stunning collection of poetry and illustrations by Rob Macfarlane and Jackie Morris celebrating the wonders of nature and preserving the words that are becoming increasingly absent from our common vernacular. With that book, I taught a class of eleven year olds what bluebells are, [...]
For someone whose life is played out to an ever-changing soundtrack, I realised over the last week or so that music is something I hardly ever write about. From dancing around my living room to the strains of Tchaikovsky's nutcracker suite as a toddler, to belting out Queen with my family on a long car [...]
I wasn't getting on with my chosen book. I could feel myself falling into a reading slump. I was also tired and anxious and in need of something to take me out of myself. I stumbled across Anstey Harris' The Truths and Triumphs of Grace Atherton sitting on a supermarket shelf as I did the weekly shop. I had never heard [...]
Thrive In Chaos 