A Portal to Another World – What Makes Any Place a Dream Home?
A couple of days ago the words ‘dream home’ sprang into my mind. I don’t know why. Perhaps it was a bit like J.K. Rowling on that train journey when she was gazing out of the window day-dreaming and...
View ArticleA World of Wonders at Leavesden Studios
On a recent visit to the Harry Potter tour at the Warner Brothers Studios in Leavesden, I was moved.The door to the Chamber of Secrets Not simply by the moment when I and my two children first stepped...
View ArticleA Review of JK Rowling’s The Casual Vacancy
I’m a great admirer of JK Rowling both as an author, and on a personal level. So when I knew she’d published her first adult novel, I was keen to read it. When I began to read The Casual Vacancy...
View ArticleDid You Struggle With The Large Number of Characters in JK Rowling’s A Casual...
BBC 1 will be starting the first of a three-part mini series of JK Rowling’s A Casual Vacancy on Sunday at 9pm. I’m delighted that the BBC have chosen to adapt it as a drama, and will be watching...
View ArticlePeople of Inspiration: JK Rowling
I’ve long admired JK Rowling, and not simply because she’s one of the world’s most successful contemporary authors. JK Rowling Although it’s true I love all the Harry Potter novels, and followed the...
View ArticleForging Our Own Paths and Surviving the Internet Sirens
On 1st September at the beginning of my Mystical Circles blog tour, author and blogger Sacha Black hosted a guest post from me on her blog. In my next few posts I shall be re-blogging my posts and...
View ArticleAlgorithms and Magical Thinking – at St Mary’s Church Warwick and the...
How do we deal with the unpredictabilty of the world we find ourselves in? Recently I’ve been challenged at two quite separate events to consider the ways in which we look at the world and handle the...
View ArticleThe Foundling Museum, London: Poignant History of Those Working to Overcome...
Few things in this world can be more heartbreaking than a lost, abandoned or mortally-endangered child, in a world where there is precious little compassion or social justice. Gin Lane by William...
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