My Mum used to tell me to go into the Catering business when I was a teenager thinking about options. She said, everyone will always need to eat and drink, you'll always make a living with that as an occupation. She had a point, and for a while I even considered it
Read MoreWith a new year firmly underway I am at last back at work after a very long absence. Beginning in November I was laid low with a nasty cold virus, and despite a few days here and there where I thought I was finally feeling a bit better I kept on lapsing into this awful state of being unwell
Read MoreLast Saturday I hosted my first Art Workshop in the cosy village hall in Hoylandswaine, Yorkshire. I thought I'd pop in and write about how it went and what I learnt.
Read MoreI'm sitting in the coffee shop, and through the window I can see a blue sky streaked with long, grey clouds, it feels calm and yet although I committed to write a blog post each week I am sitting here struggling with what to write.
Read MoreThe weeks seem to be running away with me, I can't believe we are already in the middle of October and yet I am loving the feeling of Autumn, of the wild winds and rainbow of colours as the leaves change and fall.
Read MoreIt's easy to let our creative dreams become something that we put on the back burner as something that we will do in the future. We file our ideas away, intending to get around to them and yet we somehow never do.
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