Dormancy

Added on 27 January 2018

The day after I got back from New Zealand I was felled by flu, and have been in bed mostly since then, just now starting to get back to something like normality, although it will be a while until I feel properly better, I fear. I have a spent a lot of time over the past 12 days just staring out of ...

Fronds from Down Under

Added on 15 January 2018

I have been away in China and New Zealand since November, and am now back home to a rather chillier climate with a new year resolution to share, weekly, some of things I wonder about. My favourite (non-human) thing about New Zealand was its forests and the most wonderful thing about them was the fer...

What kind of retreats do you like?

Added on 12 November 2017

I recently ran a survey about creative writing retreats, in order to find out what people prefer. Over the years I have run more than 20 weeks of retreats and I’d like to do so again. But things have changed around here – the venues I have used locally have either changed hands or are ru...