by chris-admin | Nov 27, 2023 | Blog
I’m a great one for learning new things – I have recently taken up watercolour painting, for example, thoroughly enjoy my tap dancing classes and even after many, many years of salsa dancing, still have lessons. Every day is a school day, even if I think I...
by chris-admin | Nov 9, 2023 | Blog
I love music and have it on in the background when I’m writing – that’s if I’m not out in a coffee shop enjoying the ‘coffee shop ambient noise’ which also helps me to put words on paper. In my novels, I often use music to punctuate...
by chris-admin | Nov 8, 2023 | Blog
In the latest episode of The Talking to my Friends About Books Podcast I chat to author Claire Buss about her books and her poetry. https://d3ctxlq1ktw2nl.cloudfront.net/production/exports/ba7b6b04/78231986/0903be4e6b333af59a8af2097b272cfa.m4a About Claire:...
by chris-admin | Nov 2, 2023 | Blog
I love chatting to people about books, hence the clever title of my occasional podcast, The Talking to My Friends About Books Podcast. And for this one it is sci-fi author, Anka B Troitsky, who I first met many years ago when we began dancing salsa at the same time....
by chris-admin | Aug 28, 2023 | Blog
As the main character of my new novel, Summer in Your Eyes is lapsed travel writer and blogger Holly Merriweather, I thought i’d ask some actual travel podcasters onto my occasional podcast cleverly entitled The Talking to My friends about Books...
by chris-admin | Aug 5, 2023 | Blog
Notes from an Urban Rambler (Ambler): Incorporating Food Stops into Ambling Posted on June 27, 2016 by chrispenhall As a committed ambler I have learned over the years to pace myself properly in order to fully enjoy my surroundings. You can’t amble along a...
