I’ve played the ‘Novel Openings’ game three times, and each time I’ve learned more than I could have done reading three books about writing. Let me explain. You get a bunch of authors (at...
https://wulfwaru.wordpress.com/2013/09/25/ive-started-so-ill-finish/
The house is oddly quiet this week and next, since my husband Dave is off doing the famous (or should that be infamous?) Coast to Coast walk. This is a marathon trek of around 190 miles from St B...
https://wulfwaru.wordpress.com/2013/09/05/walking-from-coast-to-coast/
I love living in a temperate country. Yes, the English weather is a constant source of amusement (all four seasons in one day at times) but variety’s the spice of life, so we never get bored. S...
Is anywhere safe from a writer’s clutches? Although I spent the first 21 years of my life in the Midlands, I now live in the North of England. I’ve never lived in London or the south but daug...
https://wulfwaru.wordpress.com/2013/06/02/shameless-exploitation/
2012 seems a million years ago, now. All the celebrations for the Queen’s jubilee and then the Olympics/Paralympics. Pomp, pageantry, well organised and inspiring events, all sorts of things wh...
https://wulfwaru.wordpress.com/2013/05/21/around-the-british-isles-in-seventy-days/
The brand new public library in Birmingham is getting ready to open its doors later this year and staff have already started transferring the contents from old to new building. It’s a Hercule...
https://wulfwaru.wordpress.com/2013/05/16/and-the-first-book-is/
Okay, I’m as bad as everyone else for letting this blog slide. So many hours in the day, so much to do, but I’ll try a post and see if anyone is listening. Of course, it involves a touch of p...
Yesterday we braved the typical bank holiday weather (i.e. rain) and visited Roche Abbey, which lies close to Rotherham in South Yorkshire just off the M18. A small site tucked into a sheltered v...
https://wulfwaru.wordpress.com/2010/05/04/days-out-roche-abbey/
One of the things I love about the UK is its preponderance of crazy place names. During boring car journeys, I often pour over the road map to find the most ridiculous-sounding place name in the ...
https://wulfwaru.wordpress.com/2010/04/13/crazy-place-names/
This month we’re in the beautiful border county of Shropshire. Here’s one of my favourite non-Yorkshire monastic buildings, Wenlock Priory, which belonged to the Cluniac order. Before the pri...
https://wulfwaru.wordpress.com/2010/03/16/days-out-wenlock-priory/