Why are you raining on my parade?

I am generally known as a shoulder to cry on, I will help someone any way I can and do tend to take on other peoples problems. I am also fiercely protective of my friends, if they are upset then I do tend to take it personal. Lately I have had a few friends who…

Strange events

people who know me may have heard me mention my cars strange behavior. Now i’m no mechanic and while it’s quite possible it is simply down to something along those lines, for now I have to put up with the strange behavior. So this is the first car I ever had having only past my…

Labeling children

Why do schools and health professionals feel the need to slap a label on children? When my eldest son was in primary school they felt he was extremely hyperactive and had trouble behaving and focusing. The teacher pulled me aside and suggested I take him to visit a doctor and get him on medication. I…

What gets your creative juices flowing?

Generally my ideas come to me randomly. I could be cooking and a scene will form in my mind then I have to rush to write it down. When I wrote the first book, most of the scenes came to me while I was using my cross trainer or whilst lying in bed before going…

Rachel Hawkins

I am going to post once a week about a favorite author of mine and their work. I will start with Rachel Hawkins and her Hex Hall series, I really enjoyed reading them and she has a prequel series starting with ‘School Spirits’ which is due out May 14th 2013 which I will look forward…

What annoying habits do you have?

I admit I have some rather strange ones. In my teenage years I had an obsession with peeling paint off railings whenever I was near them, I even started peeling the paint off my own staircase banisters whenever I walked down them. Luckily I broke from that habit, constantly having to repaint them wasn’t exactly…

My life as a writer

First of all you may have read bits and pieces here and there that I have written on this so some of this post may sound familiar. As you may know I am a very busy mother and wife also soon to become grandmother, fitting writing into my life can become difficult at times. I…

Why do people say watch out for the quiet ones?

I am a quiet person, I have never been loud or outspoken. In a group of people I will be the one sitting quietly in the corner listening to others talk. If I have nothing to say then I remain quiet, there is nothing wrong with that. I am not plotting some evil scheme or…

Looking back on your life what would you have done differently?

Tough question really, I suppose looking back I probably wouldn’t have had my children so young. Maybe lived a little more or done some traveling and perhaps got a little bit of money behind me before settling down to be a parent. Although in saying that I don’t really feel that I have missed much…

Ten stupid questions people ask in obvious situations

Here are some situations where people ask stupid questions. We are all guilty of having asked at least one of them ourselves or have found ourselves in a similar situation, I know I have and then thought afterwards ‘What an idiot!’   1: You fall down a flight of stairs in a busy shopping center…