• Mum’s Seriously Scrumptious Sponge I always loved it when Mum said she was going to make a sponge – especially the licking out the bowl part. I remember how she would sit me on the work top and I’d run my fingers round the bowl and then slurp the gooey mixture from my fingers. Then,…

    Read more →

  • Funny Of The Week

    This week’s ‘funny’ has been sent in by Murray Clarke. Thanks, Murray! Great advice!

    Read more →

  • I hope you all had a good weekend. Here’s to a great week 😄 Your new limerick challenge is as follows: SMILE Your challenge last week was to write a limerick using the word GAME in it somewhere. Here are your masterpieces: Keith Channing: I lost at my favourite game My team said that I…

    Read more →

  • I hope you’ve had a good week. If not, at least it’s nearly the weekend! 😎 Here’s your new Thursday five-word challenge: SHADE So can you tell a story in five words using the word SHADE in it somewhere? Your word last week was THROAT. Here are your THROATY stories: Trent’s World: He goes for…

    Read more →

  • New Book Coming…

    After writing the first book in my series, A Helping Hand For Writers, I didn’t know what to focus on next. Publication Guaranteed (well, almost!) covered all sorts of areas of writing, with the aim of helping you to become a published writer. So where did I go from there? I asked you guys and…

    Read more →

  • Funny Of The Week

    I can see the similarities…

    Read more →

  • I hope you all had a good weekend. Here’s to a great week 😎 Your new limerick challenge is as follows: GAME Your challenge last week was to write a limerick using the word BAND in it somewhere. Here are your masterpieces: Keith Channing: Poor Gerry could not understand Why life ne’er turned out as…

    Read more →

  • School Visits During my secondary school days, in the 1980s, we had two celebrity visitors.  The first was Margaret Thatcher. I remember the buzz of excitement in the school in the days leading up to her visit. The Prime Minister was coming to our school! In little old Newbury. My mother and father thought Maggie…

    Read more →

  • I hope you’ve had a good week. Only a day to go til the weekend 😎 Here’s your new Thursday five-word challenge: THROAT So can you tell a story in five words using the word THROAT in it somewhere? Your word last week was SUMMER. Here are your SUMMER stories: Kim Smyth: Summer is for…

    Read more →

  • Funny Of The Week

    I’m sure many would agree…

    Read more →