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• 24/01 Who are we in all this?
• 13/01 How. Is. It. Going?
• 09/01 So how was it for you?
• 04/01 A few lockdown home-ed hacks (in case it helps)
• 01/01 Happy New Year!

• 06/12 Trees
• 01/09 Great South Run Solo – a chance to support the NHS and burn off the lockdown lard
• 01/09 The end of lockdown (for now)
• 28/08 The end, the beginning, the weirdness
• 17/08 The A Level and GCSE position – UK, 2020 – one parent’s perception
• 12/08 The lockdown fat and the marathon
• 10/08 Home
• 07/08 Coming down
• 05/08 Swimming in Llyn Llydaw in a gale
• 04/08 Llyn Idwal (and a 60mph wind)
• 02/08 Remedial mountain action (Snowdon Ranger Path)
• 02/08 Yr Wyddfa – Rhyd Ddu path – and a nightmare
• 31/07 Llyn Bochlwyd and Tryfan Far South Peak
• 27/07 This Lockdown Life: HALFWAY TO A HUNDRED
• 25/07 This lockdown life: the escape
• 18/07 Turning 50
• 09/07 This lockdown life: the meaning of smiles
• 27/06 Things that will or will not change after lockdown
• 23/05 Stuff that’s going on: current short fiction competitions
• 03/05 The Irish Times: What’s Your Nightmare Job and Why?
• 02/05 Ten years of lockdown, and marmalade on toast
• 12/04 An Easter message to the people sitting in the parks and on the beaches
• 29/03 COVID-19: where to start?
• 24/01 National Trust: I Am the Seed That Grew the Tree: A Nature Poem for Every Day of the Year (Poetry Collections)
• 18/01 Pan’s Labyrinth (in Spanish)
• 05/01 January Running Distance Challenge

• 31/12 It’s New Year’s Resolution time
• 23/12 Writing to music
• 07/11 Bananas and birds – terrible things
• 14/10 Eden half-marathon (my first!)
• 29/09 When to give up?
• 26/09 Bookmarking the moment (running update: cracked shin)
• 14/09 SNUGGLES at 101 Fiction
• 06/09 Scafell Pike in a gale (and soggy pillows)
• 22/08 Reading: The Choice by Edith Eger
• 13/08 Inspirations
• 07/08 Old homes
• 29/07 Tryfan, of course (Bwlch, not summit)
• 26/07 Yr Wyddfa / Snowdon – Ranger path with 3 children
• 25/07 Not the Rhyd Ddu path: hiking in the mountains while injured (Llyn Idwal)
• 22/07 Pop the cork! The importance of celebrating the good times
• 24/06 Review: the everrumble by Michelle Elvy
• 12/06 The terrible, dreaded TBR pile
• 06/06 Race for Life 2019 (Penzance)
• 15/05 Going up Pen Y Gogarth – The Great Orme
• 14/05 Places that find me
• 28/04 Running up Godolphin Hill (Godolphin Trust 10)
• 18/04 Walking up Mount Vesuvius – vulcano e vino
• 17/04 BEST MICROFICTION 2019
• 06/03 Children’s book review: Mole’s Sunrise by Jeanne Willis
• 11/02 Each Peach Pear Plum and the comfort of mum-hugs
• 29/01 Clearing out junk and listening to author interviews
• 25/01 Where are the quiet, male heroes in children’s literature?
• 17/01 Book review – The Only Child by Guojing
• 13/01 Brown Willy: the hill of swallows

• 30/12 Christmas holiday reading list
• 30/12 Two great kids’ outdoor craft books: The Little Book of Whittling by Chris Lubkemann and Rock Art by Denise Scicluna
• 22/12 House, Parlour, Pigsty, Petty – Merry Christmas
• 21/12 Happy Solstice
• 17/12 Moonpoop and friends: lost stories and childhood memories
• 11/11 Running with 500 people – Remembrance Day 2018
• 08/11 On reading with your own child in school
• 05/11 Running up waterfalls
• 27/10 Only in English
• 16/10 Failure and rejection
• 14/10 Smiles and miles: a few tips for taking small children up mountains
• 07/10 Planning to read Romany and Raq with my children (wildlife and night walks)
• 25/09 Reading with seven-year-olds (turn, turn, turn)
• 15/09 A note to my children in defiance of all things illness-related
• 04/09 Autumn… fall… the season of spiders
• 02/09 I ran a race and I liked it
• 27/08 It’s Not A Race
• 23/08 Cader Idris and a lot of fog
• 19/08 Taking the kids shopping in HAY ON WYE
• 18/08 Big Old Fanny: Fan y Big (it’s a hill!)
• 16/08 Corn Du and Pen y Fan (easy walk for children)
• 06/08 Swim for Logan 2018
• 04/08 Yr Wyddfa / Snowdon – Miners’ path with 3 children (and I fall in love with Glaslyn)
• 17/07 Hurling jellyfish
• 29/06 A tea party from The Magic Faraway Tree (and taking fiction back into real life)
• 25/06 In the Kingdom of Overwhelm (writing about chronic illness)
• 10/06 PLUM SKIN — in RIPENING, NFFD Anthology 2018
• 07/06 Race for Life
• 14/05 THERE WILL BE NO LACE — Flashback Fiction
• 04/04 THE WHALE – Necessary Fiction
• 20/03 If I won the lottery, I’d build a reading garden
• 19/03 What do children like to read?
• 18/03 I read The Lost Words by Robert Macfarlane and Jackie Morris
• 11/03 Mother’s Day
• 14/02 Reading Born To Run: The Hidden Tribe, The Ultra-Runners, and The Greatest Race The World Has Never Seen by Christopher McDougall
• 06/02 2018 Reads to recommend
• 03/02 Reading Paver’s Chronicles of Ancient Darkness series for children (and could we survive in the wild?)

• 20/12 Christmas: season of joy or giant overwhelm?
• 18/09 Back down from the mountain
• 24/08 Llyn Idwal — a mountain lake swim and an ideal walk for a six-year-old
• 23/08 Yr Wyddfa / Snowdon – Part 3: The Llanberis path and Hafod Eryri
• 22/08 Yr Wyddfa / Snowdon – Part 2: the prep and clobber involved in taking children up hills (and my kit list)
• 21/08 Yr Wyddfa / Snowdon – Part 1: do I take my children up?
• 20/08 Adventuring again
• 06/08 Swim for Logan charity swim for Cystic Fibrosis Trust
• 22/07 Wearing the sea
• 13/07 A story of ten women and the NHS
• 06/07 Reading Roxane Gay and talking about fat
• 05/07 The story of Mr B
• 29/06 Short short short stories (adult and child writers)
• 12/06 Watching a few episodes of The Handmaid’s Tale (TV adaptation)
• 07/05 Holes by Louis Sachar
• 10/04 My copy of The Bell Jar
• 29/03 250-word challenge #storygym
• 06/03 The school librarian
• 23/02 Writing opportunities for children
• 20/02 OCCASIONALLY — Bath Flash Fiction anthology, To Carry Her Home
• 08/02 Halfway through that brilliant new project that no longer looks like such a great idea
• 12/01 Looking back to the lost pieces
• 04/01 On short stories in which nothing happens (writing with children)
• 01/01 Hello, 2017

• 31/12 The last day of 2016
• 22/12 The battle of Christmas tree vs. 2016
• 21/12 The freelancer versus employee debate — Who wants to be Whale 52?
• 14/12 Please can we keep Father Christmas under control?
• 07/12 Quirky books: The Times Concise History of the World
• 05/12 Best reference books for children aged 3 to 12 years?
• 02/11 To the music
• 31/10 Shortlisted — Bath Flash Fiction Award
• 30/10 SMILE up at 101 Fiction – Hallowe’en issue
• 23/10 Hummingbirds
• 20/10 Which are the most beautiful (or weird/furry/ugly) children’s books?
• 11/10 2016 School library update
• 04/10 On The Color Purple by Alice Walker
• 03/10 Jump!
• 27/09 After ten years of volunteering in school
• 22/09 The landscapes that dwarf us
• 07/09 Wild storytelling with Grendalilly and Two Shoes
• 06/09 Guardian Witness
• 04/09 Review: ELEANOR AND PARK by Rainbow Rowell
• 29/08 BARE REALITY: 100 WOMEN, THEIR BREASTS, THEIR STORIES by Laura Dodsworth.
• 28/07 EVERYTHING LOVE IS by Claire King (@ckingwriter)
• 21/07 Summer updates and two summer reads
• 14/06 The Chree
• 10/06 Boys, boys, boys
• 25/05 Sheep
• 10/05 The Grammatical Kittens and other SPaGs
• 08/03 Reading The Hobbit aloud to children
• 29/02 THE STONE BABY — Blue Five Notebook
• 24/02 And so I read SKELLIG
• 22/02 WHEN JANEY SEES CATS — The Pygmy Giant
• 17/02 Real-life narratives — staying safe
• 13/02 Creative nonfiction: should we write about the people we know?
• 07/02 After, again, and any road
• 12/01 Children’s books — my 2016 reading list
• 10/01 Going off-topic: how does it feel to not eat for two days?

• 25/11 The rain bird
• 18/11 It’s been twenty years since I wrote a love letter
• 15/11 Words that should exist: Smugnome
• 17/10 Bridport 2015 shortlist
• 07/10 Empurple
• 27/09 Morrab Library book sale and a copy of AMBIT
• 04/08 Another 100 books — comment on the @TES top 100 books for primary children
• 17/07 GO SET A WATCHMAN by Harper Lee — erm, is it supposed to look like that?
• 16/07 Books for children — which titles would you buy?
• 12/07 MR STINK at Penlee Theatre
• 11/07 Little Fest stories and poetry at Penlee Theatre
• 16/06 LONDON — in LANDMARKS, NFFD Anthology 2015
• 26/05 WIND SPINNER on the Fictionaut blog
• 08/04 Shortlisted (Queensferry Press, Best Small Fictions 2015)
• 21/01 Writing Short Stories (nice surprises and new starts)
• 13/01 MAYBE A FOX — Ink Sweat and Tears

• 15/12 So who is Father Christmas?
• 28/11 Just this
• 25/10 The perfect writing competition?
• 06/10 Does anyone know where I can find the anchoress story, please?
• 22/09 If I could change one thing about my writing career…
• 28/08 The Rogue Theatre Summer Ball
• 11/08 Stories that I tell my children #1 The Bookcase and the Boy
• 06/08 Review: A Girl is a Half-formed Thing by Eimear McBride
• 27/07 Forty-four (Eighty-eight)
• 19/07 Morrab Library
• 30/06 June
• 25/06 Metazen?
• 24/06 Website design & how I started blogging @TheThemeFoundry
• 06/06 VINEGAR in EATING MY WORDS — NFFD Anthology 2014
• 05/06 #bookadayuk — June 2014
• 20/05 The abandoned things
• 12/05 My submissions diary
• 09/05 Small social deaths: the literary gaffe (and a literary sofa, and a literary giant)
• 23/04 So who puts mahoosive porkies on their writing CV?
• 21/03 Love this: nickname
• 15/03 Oak-aged
• 24/02 Lost lands and old stories
• 20/01 Plots, pants, etc

• 17/12 THE SUGAR-FREE SCENT OF TODAY at Metazen
• 08/12 LITTLE HANDS OF HAPPINESS — Mslexia
• 05/12 I have moved!
• 01/11 Northwrite — collaborative fiction
• 14/10 Working for free
• 18/08 Gravity spine poems
• 17/08 An alternative writer’s retreat? Adventuring in the Scillies
• 03/08 The World’s Fastest Flower by Charlotte Simmonds
• 28/07 Forays: Madron Well
• 04/07 A few competition links
• 23/06 A COIN, TWO COINS — What The Dickens? ‘The Busker’ Anthology
• 21/06 Heads up on flash fiction
• 20/06 Flash Mob ’13: Lots of groovy flash (and… me)
• 15/06 ROSE PETAL EYES in SCRAPS — NFFD Anthology 2013
• 10/06 ALL PROUD — Flash Mob 2013
• 04/06 NFFD 2013
• 04/06 A most excellent book dedication
• 26/05 Being compar’d
• 23/05 On Goodreads
• 05/05 Flowery prose
• 01/05 From the sublime…
• 07/03 Thank YOU, World Book Day — for making us cry
• 15/02 One man’s meat: Which writing competitions should you enter?
• 11/02 What’s a typical debut novel advance?
• 04/02 Reading: The Night Rainbow by Claire King

• 27/12 Reading: Mother America by Nuala Ní Chonchúir
• 17/12 The Next Big Thing
• 06/12 Other people’s shorts
• 14/09 Conversations with S. Teri O’Type by Christopher Allen
• 12/07 Why I have not bought a Kindle
• 30/06 The books we read (versus the books we expect to read)
• 23/06 Are you about to peak — or are you past your writing prime?
• 18/06 Housewife with a Half-Life — Author interview with A. B. Wells
• 11/06 At 2am
• 31/05 All About Flash — NZ
• 22/05 Wet kennings
• 15/05 FIRST PERSON and WRAPPED in JAWBREAKERS — NFFD anthology
• 15/05 ALMOST on Wiltshire radio
• 09/05 RIPENING and ALMOST in KISSING FRANKENSTEIN AND OTHER STORIES
• 22/04 THE COWARD’S TALE and author interview with Vanessa Gebbie
• 12/03 Highly commended in 2012
• 28/01 Why do we write (letters)?

• 23/12 The Normblog Profile 401: Martha Williams
• 22/11 Too young to write, too old to count
• 07/10 Are you a hermit?
• 25/09 Jonathan Pinnock, Proxima Books, and Tentacles — It’s Mrs Darcy versus the Aliens!
• 22/04 Words for Breakfast (and why we love longlists and Tania Hershman)
• 16/02 PAY ATTENTION: A RIVER OF STONES (two mindful nano pieces)

• 01/09 JOSHUA’S HAND – Cazart Flash Fiction

• 24/02 Welcome

• 29/02 My early TV career: 2. Women who drink too much
• 29/02 My early TV career: 1. The Worst Dressed Person at the Royal Show