I decided it’s time to change the blog’s theme and layout and I hope you like it. I always wanted to incorporate Bobby’s paw into my blog’s header and thanks to this new theme I found I was able to. I am still working on my new website -hence the lack of blog entries lately. [...]
Sep
06
Aug
24
Walking Bobby article published
I’m very chuffed that my article about our walks with Bobby is finally published in German magazine Geliebte Katze. Looks great. You can read it here, if you understand German, or at least look at the photos. http://www.hkpress.co.uk/pdfs/BobbyarticleGK032.pdf
Jun
22
Open University Course
A few weeks ago I have started a Open University short course in fiction writing. I have never studied with OU before and it takes a while to get used to how it works. You basically have to do lots of really challenging writing activities which you post on the forum -via a software you [...]
Jun
10
Dealing with rejections..
Is part and parcel of what it means to be a freelance journalist. I try to shrug them off, but sometimes you see a story you pitched commissioned to someone else and you begin to wander. Often it’s just silence or a no with no explanation whatsoever. This isn’t helpful at all. My last rejection [...]
Helen's Paws for Thought
- Bobby in a box September 6, 2010Our cat is incredibly nosey and likes small boxes – she even sleeps in them. I thought I share a few photos of her which we took a couple of weeks ago. […]helen
- New layout for my blog September 6, 2010I decided it’s time to change the blog’s theme and layout and I hope you like it. I always wanted to incorporate Bobby’s paw into my blog’s header and thanks to this new theme I found I was able to. I am still working on my new website -hence the lack of blog entries lately. […]helen
- Ukuleles August 2, 2010I am not normally a trendy person, but in March I ordered an Ohana Ukulele from Music Is Life http://www.musicislife.co.uk/ (also called the Southern Ukulele Store on Ebay) which finally arrived a few weeks ago. Ukuleles are very popular at the moment – even the Guardian has dedicated an article to a Ukulele teacher in […]helen