I'm about to go on holiday in Cornwall. I should be ramming piles of unread books into bags right now.  We'll be staying in the same...

  At the Folly Farm Winter Warmer retreat, I managed to stay in bed until 12.45pm on the first full day and then sauntered down to the dinin...

How we all doing? It's tough isn't it. It's like that last bit of a long distance flight, we've watched all the good films, ...

Following a creative pursuit can sometimes be lonely and frustrating. Here are five books I’ve found particularly inspiring because they c...

The school holidays are looming, in fact, here in France they've already begun and will go on for nine (nine!) weeks. These long summer ...

In my previous blog post I wrote about Lynda Barry’s simple template for listing the details of the day with her Daily Diary. Now I’d lik...