• January 2017

With Thanks – January 2017

With thanks… Sunday January 1… BR day 49… 11,520 steps… Happy New Year! All is quiet, on new year’s day… Today I am grateful for the quiet of a morning that dawned softly grey and

  • 2016 update, book covers

Farewell 2016…

In this magical time, after the summer solstice, Christmas and Boxing Day, but before the new year… In the enchantment of this inbetween time – between celebrations, between years, between moments, between versions of our

  • Christmas, Story Queens

With Thanks – December 2016

This month I am grateful for time with my beloved, fun with the Story Queens, festive gatherings and a magical summer solstice... It’s shorter than usual cos I'm trying to catch up! With thanks… Thursday

  • November With Thanks, Story Queens

With Thanks – November 2016

This month I am grateful that I hit my 50,000 word count for NaNoWriMo, and for an awesome writing retreat with the Story Queens, and for new beginnings (okay, that one is a little bit

  • Glastonbury, Chalice Well, Tor

The Wales (and England) Adventure – Glastonbury and the Isle of Avalon

This week I am so grateful to be back "home" in Glastonbury, the mystical Isle of Avalon With thanks… Friday November 4… NaNoWriMo day 4 – 628 words… Today I am grateful for coming home

  • Wales, Bath, Jane Austen

The Wales (and England) Adventure – Bath and the Malvern Hills

Travelling from Wales to England, via a few more ancient monuments, to stay in the place where Jane Austen lived – the perfect place to start writing for NaNoWriMo 🙂 With thanks… Tuesday November 1…

  • Brecon Beacons, Wales

The Wales Adventure – Brecon Beacons and the South

Heading down south and into the mists. So much myth and magic in Wales... With thanks… Thursday October 27… Today I am grateful for perseverance (cue Terrorvision song)… I was sad to leave Anglesey this

  • Anglesey, Wales, With Thanks

The Wales Adventure – Anglesey

Beautiful Anglesey, off the north west coast of Wales, aka Ynys Mon, the Druid’s Isle... With thanks… Sunday October 23… Today I am grateful for an awesome day with Juz, exploring the Neolithic monuments of

  • Pembrokeshire

The Wales Adventure – Pembrokeshire

The beautiful Pembrokeshire coastline was gorgeous, and there were a few significant ancient monuments too... With thanks… Tuesday October 18… When we get home we’ll laugh about today, and how awful it was. I hope.

  • London, Wales

The Wales Adventure – The Beginning

After a long plane trip to London, our excellent adventure begins! With thanks… Saturday October 15… Wishing everyone much love, joy and magic on this beautiful full moon night. May its sweet light illuminate you

  • With Thanks

With Thanks – October 2016

The first two weeks of October were a crazy chaotic mess of magazine deadlines, last-minute booking for our magical trip to Wales, BodyCombat every day, and spending as much time as possible with Mum, who

  • Anniversary, Ostara, Mabon

With Thanks – September 2016

This month I am grateful for a beautiful eleventh anniversary with my beloved, to everyone who sponsored me for Steptember, and for the Into the Mists Trilogy ebook becoming available... With thanks… Thursday September 1…

  • Mermaid Magic, Aladdin

With Thanks – August 2016

This month I am grateful to my sweet hubby for doing the 40 Hour Famine with me, and to everyone who sponsored us... With thanks… Monday August 1… Pump… Today I am grateful that I

  • Camp NaNoWriMo, faery garden, faery friend

With Thanks – July 2016

This month I am grateful for my Camp NaNoWriMo buddies, glad I got so much work done on Into the Storm, and happy my ankle kinda healed so I could get back to my BodyPump

  • Supanova, Alice In Wonderland

With Thanks – June 2016

This month I am grateful for a trip to Perth for my first Supanova there – and a chance to visit my family – and to Juz for helping me so much with, well, everything,

With Thanks – May 2016

This month I am grateful for Body Pump and Body Combat, for a visit from a faraway friend, for the release of the beautiful hardcover Into the Mists Trilogy, for an awesome four days at

With Thanks – April 2016

This month I am grateful for Camp NaNoWriMo – and another 32,000 words written of Rhiannon's story – and for just how stubborn I am, and determined... And I'm grateful for high tea with a

With Thanks – March 2016

This month I am grateful that I could raise money for brilliant causes by taking part in three challenges - and yes, the nothing but water to drink for two weeks was infinitely harder than

With Thanks – February 2016

This month I am grateful for the beauty of Sydney and its gorgeous parks, a new (Chinese) year, catch-ups with my writer friends on the Central Coast, surviving two stupidly crazy weeks at the magazines,

With Thanks – January 2016

This month I am grateful for sweet birthday celebrations with my beloved, a new year (well, the western one anyway), Jillian Michaels, Body Pump and Body Combat, Star Wars: The Force Awakens, work on the