Elle Field's Blog, page 25
April 30, 2017
The month that was: April 2017
What happened:
I've been freelancing in Tunbridge Wells this month, which means I've been staying with Olly's parents some of the time during the week. I've missed my London lunches! (And London.) It did give me time though to listen to S-Town when I was travelling - an excellent, albeit sad podcast, and one I highly recommend.
Easter plans were cancelled as my mum was admitted to hospital, so that's where I spent it, though Dad and I did sneak in a few games of bowling. (Mum was in hospit...
I've been freelancing in Tunbridge Wells this month, which means I've been staying with Olly's parents some of the time during the week. I've missed my London lunches! (And London.) It did give me time though to listen to S-Town when I was travelling - an excellent, albeit sad podcast, and one I highly recommend.
Easter plans were cancelled as my mum was admitted to hospital, so that's where I spent it, though Dad and I did sneak in a few games of bowling. (Mum was in hospit...
April 1, 2017
The month that was: March 2017
What happened:
I finished my freelance contract, my friend came to stay, we met friends for lunch and a walk on the Southbank, I *finally* went to the hairdressers, we travelled to Yorkshire to visit my family, plus we went to the Star Wars Identities exhibition at The O2. (And Olly constructed the LEGO Millennium Falcon that I bought him, just because!)
In Yorkshire, we had a mooch around York in the sunshine and climbed to the top of York Minster - before catching up with my family,...
I finished my freelance contract, my friend came to stay, we met friends for lunch and a walk on the Southbank, I *finally* went to the hairdressers, we travelled to Yorkshire to visit my family, plus we went to the Star Wars Identities exhibition at The O2. (And Olly constructed the LEGO Millennium Falcon that I bought him, just because!)
In Yorkshire, we had a mooch around York in the sunshine and climbed to the top of York Minster - before catching up with my family,...
March 2, 2017
The month that was: February 2017
What happened:
I've been busy freelancing all month, but it's been nice to be out and about in central London - especially as spring creeps closer! I'm walking around 7-8 miles a day since I discovered taking the Tube from Waterloo takes me 20 minutes... walking takes me 25 minutes, and is much more scenic. (Not to mention my only form of exercise!) It's also a year since we moved from Brixton to Wandsworth, and I'm still super happy living there.
We headed to Kent this month to visit our niece...
I've been busy freelancing all month, but it's been nice to be out and about in central London - especially as spring creeps closer! I'm walking around 7-8 miles a day since I discovered taking the Tube from Waterloo takes me 20 minutes... walking takes me 25 minutes, and is much more scenic. (Not to mention my only form of exercise!) It's also a year since we moved from Brixton to Wandsworth, and I'm still super happy living there.
We headed to Kent this month to visit our niece...
January 31, 2017
The month that was: January 2017 (And resolutions!)
What happened:
Happy New Year! We started 2017 by taking down the tree... and I'm *still* spotting stray pine needles around the house. I eased myself into January, before job hunting, job hunting, job hunting! Things are changing, but this means that, hopefully, in a few years, we might be able to swap renting a flat to owning our very own London shoebox... which means I have no idea when you'll get another book from me since I no longer have the luxury of having long chunks of free time.
When...
Happy New Year! We started 2017 by taking down the tree... and I'm *still* spotting stray pine needles around the house. I eased myself into January, before job hunting, job hunting, job hunting! Things are changing, but this means that, hopefully, in a few years, we might be able to swap renting a flat to owning our very own London shoebox... which means I have no idea when you'll get another book from me since I no longer have the luxury of having long chunks of free time.
When...
January 25, 2017
Writer Wednesday: Sarah Vincent
Sarah was born and grew up in north London, and spent most of her childhood scribbling stories. A wayward teenager, she ran out on A Levels to become an au pair in Rome. Back in London she worked for a spell at the London Library, before having a family. For the next twenty years or she wrote a novel a year, most of which went in the famous drawer.Writing under her real name Susan Davis, her Y/A trilogy ‘The Henry Game’ was published by Random House back in the noughties.
Around that ti...
January 18, 2017
Writer Wednesday: Matt Johnson
Matt Johnson is an ex-soldier and cop from the UK. He is the author of the 2016 John Creasey CWA Dagger listed novel Wicked Game which was listed by Amazon UK as the highest-rated rising star novel of 2016 and topped the best seller lists for both the Kindle and Kobo e-readers. Originally a self-published work, in 2015, the rights to Wicked Game were acquired by London based publishers Orenda Books.Matt served as a soldier and Metropolitan Police officer for twenty-five years. Blown off his f...
January 11, 2017
Writer Wednesday: Toni Jenkins
Toni Jenkins was born in New Zealand in 1970. After graduating with a BA Honours degree in Education, she bought a one-way ticket to the UK and so began her love affair with the northern hemisphere. She has been writing all her life, beginning with poetry, short stories and quotes and later moving into novels. Toni wrote her first novel in her early thirties, with her second being penned in an Italian village during her ‘mature gap year’. The Sender is her third and the first to be published....
January 4, 2017
Writer Wednesday: Clare Harvey
Clare Harvey spent a childhood in Mauritius, Surrey and Devon. She studied Law at the University of Leicester, and has had an itinerant adulthood, travelling throughout sub-saharan Africa and working as a freelance journalist and English tutor in Nepal, Germany and Northern Ireland, as well as various parts of England. She has three children and has now settled with her family in Nottingham.Her second book, The English Agent, follows the intertwining stories of Yvette, a secret operations exe...
January 2, 2017
The month that was: December 2016
What happened:
Another quiet month for me, though the highlight was, naturally, putting up our Christmas tree! We got a gorgeous real 8ft beauty, which we adorned with lights, baubles and tinsel. The Jack Skellington bauble we bought in Magic Kingdom cheerfully has been keeping an eye on things from the top of the tree. Now, if only it was acceptable to have a tree in your house every month of the year!
Realising I'd not seen much of the Christmas decorations in London, we went for a stroll tak...
Another quiet month for me, though the highlight was, naturally, putting up our Christmas tree! We got a gorgeous real 8ft beauty, which we adorned with lights, baubles and tinsel. The Jack Skellington bauble we bought in Magic Kingdom cheerfully has been keeping an eye on things from the top of the tree. Now, if only it was acceptable to have a tree in your house every month of the year!
Realising I'd not seen much of the Christmas decorations in London, we went for a stroll tak...
January 1, 2017
Books read in 2016
In 2016 I read 209 books, abandoned reading 30 books, and listened to one audiobook. You can find out how I rated them over on Goodreads. xThe Cherry Tree Cafe - Heidi Swain [B]The Girl with All the Gifts - M. R. Carey [B]Winter Wishes - Ruth Saberton [B]The Invisible Library - Genevieve Cogman [B]Never Tell - Claire Seeber [B]The Secret Diary of a Princess - Melanie Clegg [B]Wonders of the Solar System - Brian Cox [B]The Masked City - Genevieve Cogman [B]Known - Kendra El...
