How friendly is a friendly? I have a friend that writes for a living. Sounds good, eh!? Yeah, but he writes reports for large corporations. To be honest I’m not too sure what he writes about. But he does get paid to do that. When he heard that I was doing a creative writing course he asked if I’d like to write a little piece for the tennis club website. I was really pleased to be asked. My first requested creative writing piece. He wanted ‘three hundred crisp words’. I confirmed with him that … [Read more...]

I was inspired to write this story after talking to my friend Pip, who was losing her mother. She related to me one of the issues she had to overcome, which was what was to become of her mother's thimble collection. It struck me that although they would not want it after she had died, they would find it very difficult to part with. As the months progressed and Pip finally lost her mother, I realised that I had not examined my own feelings about the bereavements I had suffered. I hope you will … [Read more...]