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(#parenting #amwriting #noncovidpost October 2021) How to play = how to write? One of the joys of being a parent is I get to experience the pleasure of pure, unselfconscious, immersive play all over again. I get to witness the unburdened world of total fantasy and make believe.  If I want to, I can joinContinue reading “Half Term Pondering”

(Another extract from my novel (fiction) this is from a few chapters in) A lamb as dry as pork Viv June 019. The sun did come out, unexpected like on a cold November day. High and bright in the sky causing the frost on the ground to glisten. A cloud moved and there it was.Continue reading “A heron watched me fall (2)”

A poem written on the first anniversary of the UK’s start of lockdown. (March 2021) This poem is part of the Royal Society of Literary Write Across London project (https://rsliterature.org/write-across-london) A year of Covid gone by. I remember my first covid patient and how I cleared a path in my full PPE shutting down theContinue reading “A Year Of Covid Gone By (poem)”

Written in late summer 2020 On the 26th March 2020 I completely missed the first clap for carers tribute. I was instead taking a shift handover in the site office. Unbeknown to me were the hordes of people along the river, the police, the ambulance crews, the public and hospital staff. All clapping and cheeringContinue reading “A Clap -an opinion piece”

A short extract from my novel: A Line of Paper dolls May 2019 Imogen As I look up I can see the mirror of terrace houses identical to ours, a line of them seeming as if they go on for ever. Houses connected, garden walls shared, water pipes heard from one house to the next. Continue reading “A Heron Watched Me Fall”

May 2020 (Short listed for the Yeovil Literary Writing Without Restrictions Prize 2021) My colleagues and I hadn’t taken it seriously, we were almost a little cocky, ‘Yeah. Yeah, we’ve seen H1N1, we’ve seen SARS, we’ve nursed in pandemics before’ So we carried on, until very quickly our office became an incident command center, execsContinue reading “Behind Closed Doors: A Nursing Memoir”