This already feels like a good year.  It’s a sober one and, I hope, a great opportunity for new work, fresh collaborations and different directions.  My first main project for the year is working with Anna-Maria Parry on editing a poetry booklet for our friend Jim Bostock who has a terminal illness.  We want to Continue reading

Not a good day – 29th June.  Saw my friend, Brenda’s, funeral and we dressed up in accordance with the instructions, in bright colours.  Typical of Brenda, we left the crematorium to the sound of Florence Foster Jenkins but I can’t help thinking that rainbow funerals are a version of positive psychology.  I think there’s Continue reading

It’s been a busy year so far full of work, family, studies and recent sadness.  My mother-in-law, Mary Rowe, died on 10th June, aged 91 after some years living with vascular dementia.  Mary always lived with family until her final week in hospital.  When John and I were married 20 years ago Mary lived with Continue reading