by Barbara | Aug 12, 2010 | Uncategorized
It really is true what they say about writing.. It’s like everything else, the more you do it, the easier it comes. So, after 6 weeks or so of erratic writing due to kids off school and so called ‘summer time’ I am really struggling. I am trying to get a piece...
by Barbara | Aug 3, 2010 | Uncategorized
Last night I watched one of my favourite programmes “Who Do You Think You Are?” whose subject was Irish actress Dervla Kirwan. I love this programme at the best of times and have vowed if I ever come into serious money I will engage the services of ‘professionals’ to...
by Barbara | Jul 29, 2010 | Uncategorized
Thanks to Jayne at A Novice Novelist for the inspiration for this blog post. Jayne’s latest post is entitled ‘A Moment From My Window’.Back in 2002 when the Photographer and I came to view this house, there were two major things that we both fell in love with. One was...
by Barbara | Jul 23, 2010 | Uncategorized
Well Hello… it sure feels like ages since I have spent any time at my own Kitchen Table.Summer time and all routine has more or less vanished out the window. The days seem to take on a shape of their own each morning. Each one different. My youngest two are...
by Barbara | Jul 16, 2010 | Uncategorized
The following short feature appeared in The Irish Examiner, today Friday 16th July 2010. Shirley Valentine, Willy Russell’s bored and put upon Liverpudlian housewife, used to talk to her kitchen wall. “Hello wall,” she would say when returning from her grocery...
