Tag Archives: blogging

British? Moi?

Posted on March 25, 2013 by

This is a tough one. I have been nominated by the lovely writer Vivienne Tuffnell over at zen and the art of tightropewalking (whose novel Away With the Fairies I am currently reading and enjoying very much) for A Very British Blog … Continue reading →

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What stops you writing? A tale of two weeks….

Posted on February 22, 2013 by

Fourteen days ago I was packing up my laptop, articles and library books ready to make the journey home after five days of writing. Well, I had lunch with a mate and went to the cinema to see Life of Pi with … Continue reading →

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Love poems you wish you had written #4 – Billy Collins

Posted on February 11, 2013 by

Thus far I have taken this series of posts on love poems very seriously, largely because well, love is pretty serious isn’t it? The intensity of the experience and the joy and pain that love brings are hardly a laughing … Continue reading →

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Love poems you wish you had written #3 – Julia Copus

Posted on February 9, 2013 by

I have written before of the wonderful Reading Matters group I was, and still am, lucky enough to be part of (we call it ‘Reading Still Matters’ now that the Royal Literary Fund have moved on to other projects). The … Continue reading →

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Mental health guest post: on surviving using self-help strategies….

Posted on December 22, 2012 by

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 →

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The start of a new collection? Guest post: Trish Hurtubise talks mental health…

Posted on November 23, 2012 by

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 →

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I don’t know what it is but I’ve lost it…the evaporation of the blogging mojo

Posted on October 2, 2012 by

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 →

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Dandelions and Bad Hair Days – the ‘clock’ counts down as the website is launched

Posted on June 27, 2012 by

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 →

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A poetic inspiration – lines that mean the world to us

Posted on June 18, 2012 by

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 →

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Dandelions & Bad Hair Days – how mental health & motherhood woke up the writer in me

Posted on April 26, 2012 by

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 →

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