Wales, Writing And A Secret
WITH a surname like Wynne-Jones my family’s Welsh roots are obvious. My dad spent his early years in Lampeter and later on in Llanishen and it’s important to me that I know that because...
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What Agents Want, Soft Chairs and Gardening
If you want to read an insightful and helpful article about ‘What An Agent Wants’ click here. It’s from the Novelicious.com website and my own agent has kindly mentioned me in it. Many thanks...
Fun Video of Dolphins Playing with Cat
I am very fond of dear dolphins and I am very fond of dear cats but you don’t often see the two of them playing together! Click to watch the frolics here. Podcasts.ie kindly...
Super Documentary About Very Smart Animals
Adored the television programme ‘Super Smart Animals’. Fabulous footage of canny birds and a maths genius monkey etc. Whales, dogs, a parrot and meerkats were amongst the stellar contributors. Congratulations to the BBC and...
Stargazing, Novels and Cute Pigs
Found a nice pink DKNY jumper in a charity shop on Saturday for only €6.Love a bargain! And finished reading ‘On Chesil Beach’ by Ewan McEwan yesterday. It is masterfully written, intimate and poignant....
Masking tape, Christmas and a big turf fire
I don’t have a great relationship with Sellotape. I know that it is theoretically a useful product…but if I use it to wrap Christmas presents…that festive paper is usually pretty shiny and slithery anyway….the...
Midnight In Paris and the Sandwich
Went to see Woody Allen’s ‘Midnight In Paris’ the other day. It was an afternoon showing. Snuck into the cinema after the lights had gone down with a very large sandwich I’d just purchased....
Guilty Pleasures
Found myself watching the X Factor last weekend. There, I’ve admitted it. At least yesterday evening I only watched part of it…was more interested in dear Stephen Fry’s programme ‘Planet Word’. I gave myself...
The writing process and the corrugated boiler flue
‘A bird doesn’t sing because it has an answer, it sings because it has a song.’ Maya Angelou I really really enjoyed watching ‘Who Do You Think You Are?’ on the telly the other...
Porcelain Unicorn
The Porcelain Unicorn is a BEAUTIFUL prize-winning three minute film and a fabulous example of concise effective storytelling. It was mentioned in The Irish Times recently. Well worth a look. http://url.ie/d05w Warm wishes, Grace
Forays to Limerick
My childhood trips to the local metropolis of Limerick were tinged with adventure. Even getting there felt slightly precarious because my father was a nervous driver and the journey started out with a prayer....
Knitting By The Lake
‘I am a forty eight year old woman who loves books and I have read zillions in my life. My husband has never heard me laugh out loud as much or cried as I...
My Welsh Dad and some thoughts on writing
WITH a surname like Wynne-Jones my family’s Welsh roots are obvious. My dad spent his early years in Lampeter and later on in Llanishen and it’s important to me that I know that because...
Ireland’s Election
It’s election time in Ireland. Was tempted to answer the door to politicians dressed as a chicken and carrying a Chihuahua. Would love to see their faces as they attempted to explain their policies....
Decisions re. ‘stuff’
‘…a novel which by turns had me laughing (aloud) entranced and, by the end a little bit wiser than I was at the beginning. In ‘The Truth Club’ Grace Wynne-Jones has produced a book...
Rectory Memories
Mum loved animals and at one point we even had two chameleons and some tree frogs in our rectory menagerie and two ground squirrels inhabited a largish cage in our bathroom. One of the...
