Blog

In which I have another shot at ruining 12 days of Christmas, as if I haven’t already done that enough …

A round-up of my reading in 2022 in characteristically disorganised but enthusiastic style, featuring pandemics, big bad wolves, and not-vampires.

A second instalment of fantastic French food, this time featuring crêpes and gougère. And cheese. Lots and lots of cheese.

Two easy recipes from France – soupe au pistou and mushroom risotto made with foraged mushrooms because life is amazing sometimes.

Seven wonderful things – and a plague of photos – about the south of France, and Antibes and Caille in particular.

A very photo-heavy list of fun things from the UK leg of the trip, including story settings for upcoming books.

Missing dragons. Rampaging beasts. Ladies of a certain age and temperament … Read chapter one in Beaufort Scales’ seventh cozy mystery here!

Revealing the name of the seventh Beaufort Scales book, plans for the coming months, and being offline.

Not all distraction is bad. It can be a way to reset, to let the subconscious tinker for a bit …

A dog called Shorty, a trip to Fiji, an unexpected smoked fish and an expected loss, among other things. Also dragons.