Wigtown Book Festival
Anstey gave the keynote speech at Wigtown Book Festival in November 2021 on Writers’ Block and how to avoid…
Beardy Blog
The old lady who moved to the countryside and maybe grew a moustache. The last 18 months have been…
“NOT EVERYONE HAS TO LOVE YOU, PHIN. JUST A FEW GOOD PEOPLE
I’ve seen The Greatest Showman twice now and intend to see it twice more before it leaves the cinema. It’s a…
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THE MORE I PRACTICE, THE LUCKIER I GET (ATTR. GARY PLAYER)
My friend Jess owns an eyebrow salon. You take your eyebrows there and you come out svelte, groomed and…
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The Turning of the Fictional Tide
A couple of nights ago, randomly browsing the TV for a nightcap, I chanced across Four Weddings and a…
STICK & STONES CAN BREAK MY BONES: WORDS ARE PRETTY POWERFUL TOO.
Last week was International Lesbian Visibility Day – I hadn’t known it was a thing but it popped up…
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Striders, A short story
I wrote this short story a couple of years ago about a dream my husband had. There is a…
It takes a village……
It Takes a Village…… to raise a child. No man is an island. Alone we can do so little; together we…
INTERNATIONAL WOMEN’S DAY
I started my blog on International Women’s Day by coincidence, not by design but it does chime with a…