I’m most grateful to The Times newspaper’s Weather Eye (not for the first time, it’s a wonderful source of historical snippets about weather-related events – do check it out if you can) for reminding me that this Saturday, the 15th of January, is the 660th anniversary of a particularly violent storm that seriously affected England, as well as Ireland …
Medieval climate change…
A couple of weeks ago here in the UK, we put our clocks back one hour from daylight saving time. So now it’s more or less dark by 5pm. I know that some people suffer from SAD, seasonal affective disorder, brought on by the shorter days. I’m not one of them but, even so, I …
Meonbridge children: grief and joy
Goodness, I posted my last blog back in May! I honestly hadn’t intended leaving it quite so long before writing another one but I have been somewhat distracted of late… And that distraction has not been because I’ve been tied to my desk writing the next Meonbridge Chronicle – although I AM indeed writing it, and …
“To terrify and teach…”
Recently, I read a book that I was surprised I hadn’t read before, as it was absolutely my kind of book: A Month in the Country, by J L Carr. The central story concerns a young man, Tom Birkin, who, in the aftermath of the First World War – from which he has returned damaged, mentally …
How did you become a writer? (Part 2)
For those of you who’ve read one or more of my books but knows little about me as a writer, I thought I’d share some selected questions and answers from some of the online “interviews” I’ve taken part in over the years. For last month’s blog, I chose questions related to how I started out …
Carolyn Hughes 