Fil Campbell & Tom McFarland

And yet more titles from my reading challenge ticked off this year so far.


Malaya
The Night Tiger by Yangsze Choo ***

I picked this book up from looking at Reese Witherspoon's Book Club list and frankly it wasn't entirely…

Some more titles ticked off from my round the world reading challenge.

These are two more titles from the charity book club  ShelterBox which I wrote more about in my last book review post.  

Kuwait

 The Pact We Made…

I've been trying to take the time this month to get some much needed rest and blogging has fallen by the wayside again .... so I thought I'd at least try to jump in and join the Photo Scavenger Hunt…

Taken from the Letters With Wings Page    “And so, her name at the top left-hand side of the envelope; under it, the address of her prison” - Joseph Andras   For Poetry Day Ireland, in a difficult moment where…

I've been getting through lots of books on my round the world reading challenge since the new year and the lockdown has been helping me get through the pile lying by my bedside.   I've updated the list on the dedicated…

How are you all coping in this crazy time?   I'm finding myself vacillating between being really stressed trying to keep up with work which seems to take 3 times as long as normal and just longing for some rest to…

We're in the middle of our run of performances of the Emigrant Woman and Border Stories and waiting from day to day to see if they're going to be cancelled while trying not to panic.

Because of Csilla's story of…

Csilla and I will be on the Eve Blair Show on Radio Ulster and Radio Foyle on Saturday next at 1pm talking about our Emigrant Woman's Tale shows in Derrry and Armagh the following week.

If you have time have…

Just a heads up about a show I'm doing locally here at the start of March.

I've written about The Emigrant Woman's Tale which I've co-written with Hungarian poet Csilla Toldy - it tells the story of her escape from…

Tsunduko

That makes me smile ...
Love it

I wrote back in October about a challenge I've set myself…

I'm fulfilling a childhood dream today ....
 

My friend Belinda runs the local craft shop here in town - Good Craic Gifts.  She's Australian and has added so much to this place - the shop is a total celebration…

Trains! 

I love them! 

This week I've been up in Belfast 3 times and for the first time I've had  a chance to use my new free pass on the train - we don't have a great train service here…

The blessings of Brigid to you today on this first day of Spring - it's Imbolc.   I still haven't got a new Brigid's Cross for this year but hopefully someone today will give me…

Having written lots about the Tyrone Guthrie Centre at Annaghmakerrig before I'll not bore you with more details other than it was the estate and family home of an aristocratic composer Tyrone Guthrie who left it first to two workers…