Embracing the chaos
As a stationery-lover, I love new year. The lure of a crisp new page –as perfect as a fresh snowfall – is something I look forward to every year. But this year is the first where I’ve written a daily diary. My 2021 diary is bloated with notes and to-do lists and is a...
The Undoing
It’s dark. I know it’s dark, but I can no longer see that it’s dark, if that makes any sense. I try to push against whatever is holding me here, because I know with utmost certainty that I am being held. When I first realised my confinement, I clawed at the unknown...
Best Books of 2021 (so far)
Back at the start of this year, I signed up to the Goodreads Challenge. I plucked a figure of 50 books out of the air and decided to see how far I could get. For years, I found it really difficult to read while I was writing. I’d get so into the story that the...
The Bell Pepper (Short Story)
It was late November by the time I finally returned home. The sky had been the colour of damp plaster, the drizzle persistent enough to need the wipers, but not committed enough to allow them to do their job well. They had screeched incessantly across the windscreen,...
I grew up in the Welsh Valleys in a tiny house full of stories, magic and pets. I adore animals, nature and all things spiritual and I frequently combine all three in my writing.
I’m a sustainability specialist by profession, specialising in communication, so my work is heavily influenced by my desire to protect the natural world and encourage others to do the same.
I live in Berkshire with my lovely husband, two elderly dogs and, until very recently, a geriatric black cat. When I’m not working, writing, walking dogs or generally pandering to the needs of my furry charges, I’m usually to be found faffing about in the garden, spying on our visiting hedgehogs or coddling my dozens of house plants.