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A hazy recollection of my first ever email… or so I think.

I have the right hump

A sudden desire to write

Something big, and slightly chaotic, happened last week

Gardening in Orkney: Spring

Spectacle or Smudge? Seeing the Northern Lights for real

This is what I know so far...

Fiction vs Non-Fiction

Off-Grid Voices - A Chat with Hannah Swierstra

Colin gets a colon

A week in the garden

Running on Empty

The big problem with “community-led” anything

A week in the life of a reluctant novelist

Betrayal, knees and cold bottoms

Doug or Dystopia? A garden gone rogue

Do I stay or do I go?

Confessions of a Reluctant Dry January Participant

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