I would love to talk about body image today. I know this can be a very delicate subject for many of us, but i think it’s important to discuss as part of looking at beauty.

When I was younger (I think about 7 or 8), I met a girl that basically lived in (well I guess you would call it) one of the clear cots that you get in hospital to put your baby in.

I was looking at a blanket my friend Clare has crocheted for someone and she used the entrelac pattern, which she had used to make me a jumper.

I don’t know if you are aware, but I am a Royalist in many ways. And today, with his Majesty King Charles III being crowned, I wished to see this event take place.

Beauty. What a word. Beauty. Now, what do you have to consider when beauty is the subject of choice? At the end of the day, it’s what you SEE and decide that makes something beautiful. What it means to you.

It’s a strange word actually, isn’t it? You can be committed to a place, person, idea, book, country….all sorts of things. And some of them aren’t the kind of thing that you would ever consider committing to.

Conversation or communication - so what do I mean as being the difference? Well, actually, quite a lot! As a young lady coming out into society, they were expected to learn how to converse.

Have you ever had a pair of slippers that have got really old but because they are just so comfortable, you don’t want to take them off?

I think I started writing before school or very close to it anyway. And once I started writing I just couldn’t stop! It was the other half to my reading.

“What a stormy night” thought Edith as she fought her way forward to race the clouds and reach home. She was soaked through and her hair was whipping across her face as she attempted the stroll.

I don’t know if you ever colour in pages with pictures and words and things and some of them even tell you the colour to use. I was doing one today and there was only one word on the page - HOPE.

Well, you say, what on earth are you talking about? There are three different accepted words that are used for people who write fiction in different ways.