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- Talking crime – on why we love a good murder mystery….
- Let’s focus on the words: Peter, Tony, and a Portrait of Keats
- Why Mrs T should have left the room quietly, closing the door behind her….
- ‘In relation to’ what? On ‘Talking Books’ and chewing words….
- ‘Talking Books’…On trying to become Somerset’s answer to Mariella Frostrup
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Author Archives: keatsbabe
Mental health guest post: on surviving using self-help strategies….
Editor’s note: Dandelions and Bad Hair Days has brought me into contact with some really interesting and honest writers and Melanie is definitely one of them. She is a freelance writer, mother and is currently working on her first novel. Recently … Continue reading
Posted in Dandelions and Bad Hair Days, Mental health, Writing
Tagged anxiety, bipolar, blogging, creativity, depression, health, mental health, Mood, personality, self-help, women's issues, writing
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On receiving some wonderful old news……
As some of my regular readers may be aware, I was commissioned earlier this year, by the new social history imprint of Pen and Sword Books, to write a book about the impact of the first world war on the … Continue reading
Posted in Book, Family History, History, London, Writing
Tagged Books, Family History, First Blitz, First World War, Great War, Historic Newspapers, London, reading, research, Shell Shocked Britain, WW1, Zeppelin raids
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Finding a little ‘Kindness’ in a terrible world…
Even as we enter the ‘festive season’, and many of us are thinking about how best we can bring a smile to the faces of friends and family in the coming days, we have, in the space of one weekend, been faced … Continue reading
‘Health anxiety’ or ‘hypochondria’? Fear or phobia, it’s a killer…
Perhaps my title exaggerates; perhaps it doesn’t. All I know is that whether you worry at every possible sign of illness and go to the doctors, or worry about illness and avoid the medical profession until a crisis occurs, these are … Continue reading
The start of a new collection? Guest post: Trish Hurtubise talks mental health…
Introduction Dandelions and Bad Hair Days: Untangling lives affected by depression and anxiety was published on 10th October 2012. Regular readers of my blog will know that many of the pieces in that book started life as guest posts on … Continue reading
On women bishops: why everyone should care about the Church of England vote
How many people watching or listening to the news coverage of the vote by the General Synod of the Church of England (the Church’s governing body) against the appointment of women bishops actually care? Not many I would guess, and then not … Continue reading
On preferring Sicilian Sun to Scandinavian Noir – ‘Inspector Montalbano Sono’
Wallander, Sarah Lund, Lisbeth Salander, Harry Hole et al – we are now in thrall to the Scandanavian detective. Introduced to the characters via the wonderful BBC4 I have since escaped into the novels of Henning Mankell, the lead character … Continue reading
I don’t know what it is but I’ve lost it…the evaporation of the blogging mojo
Over recent months visits to my blog have doubled, but the number of posts I have written has halved. What could the explanation be? It is easy actually, to know why this has happened. I am not sure how to see my … Continue reading
Sex lurks in the shadows of the Pre-Raphaelites – phallic symbols in Isabella by Millais
FAIR Isabel, poor simple Isabel! Lorenzo, a young palmer in Love’s eye! They could not in the self-same mansion dwell Without some stir of heart, some malady; They could not sit at meals but feel how well It soothed each … Continue reading
Posted in Art, History, Keats, Poetry
Tagged Holman Hunt, John Keats, Millais, pre raphaelite brotherhood, Pre-Raphaelites, Tate Britain
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10, 9, 8… Now the ‘clocks’ really are counting down for Dandelions and Bad Hair Days.
Well it is definitely happening now. No longer an idea, or a manuscript or a virtual, social media entity. Dandelions and Bad Hair Days is a physical book – with a cover and everything! It has an ISBN number, a … Continue reading
Posted in Book, Dandelions and Bad Hair Days, Mental health, Poetry, Writing
Tagged anxiety, Books, Brendon Books, depression, mental health, Mood, personality, SANE, writing
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