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Category Archives: Dandelions and Bad Hair Days
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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Mock Orange – a poem for work & the summer weather
Mock Orange Watching, as the waxy flowers fall into the scattered gravel of the summer garden; it seems the world, the weather and a clouded view conspire to damp the spirits. Her fingers leave the glass. She turns into the … Continue reading
Dandelions and Bad Hair Days – the ‘clock’ counts down as the website is launched
Apologies for the rather dodgy pun in the title but what an exciting day! The book Dandelions and Bad Hair Days is awaiting the final touches and a foreword from the charity SANE (who have seen and read it and been so … Continue reading
Posted in Book, Dandelions and Bad Hair Days, Mental health, Writing
Tagged anxiety, blogging, Books, DABHD, Dandelions and Bad Hair Days, depression, mental health, Mood, website, writing
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A poetic inspiration – lines that mean the world to us
I have been inspired this morning. Not to write too much of my own but to look at the work of others and take heart from the possibilities that work opens up to me. This is due simply to the … Continue reading
Posted in Art, Dandelions and Bad Hair Days, Keats, Poetry, Writing
Tagged birches by robert frost, blogging, Books, John Keats, Keats, Mood, Poetry, reading, Robert Frost, writing
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Living the dream: on creativity, coffee and purple carrots….
How many of us have wanted to leave the ‘rat race’ (who does ‘race’ rats?) and open a cafe or tea shop? Especially one set in a village close to wonderful rolling countryside and just a few miles from the … Continue reading
Do I have to change my personality to market my book?
Dandelions and Bad Hair Days will be published in the early autumn of this year. That is great news and I am looking forward to seeing it in print and using it to raise awareness of mental health issues and … Continue reading
Posted in Dandelions and Bad Hair Days, Mental health, Random musings on family life, love the universe and everything, Writing
Tagged anxiety, Books, Dandelions and Bad Hair Days, depression, marketing, mental health, mental health charities, Mood, personality, procrastination, publishing, writing
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Dandelions & Bad Hair Days – how mental health & motherhood woke up the writer in me
In a few months time a book will be published; an anthology of prose and poetry on the experience of mental health issues. It will have my name on the cover and I will have written some of the pieces the book includes. … Continue reading
Posted in Dandelions and Bad Hair Days, Mental health, Parenting, Random musings on family life, love the universe and everything
Tagged anxiety, blogging, childhood, Dandelions and Bad Hair Days, depression, family, Kids, mental health charities, mental health issues, mental-health, parenting
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