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November 24, 2016
What I learnt this week: real or fake?
Before your mind goes wandering – I’m talking Christmas Trees!
Last weekend I found myself in a garden centre, looking at artificial Christmas trees – and wow, they are so much better than they used to be. No more assembling branch by branch. In fact you don’t even have to fiddle about with fairy lights – it comes with them already on. So just remove from loft (umm, they haven’t made that part easy yet) open box, insert top part into middle part, into bottom part. Fluff the branches out. Add decorations.
Done.
So I started wondering – why do I bother buying a real tree every year?
The case for the artificial tree
After about 4 years, it is effectively free (assuming real trees are around £40 a go).
It doesn’t require a trip to a garden centre, followed by the inevitable hoovering of the car after the tree you’ve jammed into it sheds a third of its needles when you try to pull it out.
It doesn’t need part of the trunk sawing off the bottom.
It doesn’t shed needles in the house which then get stuck in your sock, stuck in the carpet and can still be found six months later.
You don’t have to remember to water it.
It isn’t drooping by Christmas Eve.
You don’t have to hoover your car for the second time in a month after the dead tree you’ve lugged to the recycle centre dumps the final third of its needles.
The case for the real tree
It smells like a pine forest.
And yep, that’s about all I can think of.
Yet every year I still go out and buy a real tree. The boys have long since grown bored of choosing one and decorating it, so much as I’d love to, this time I can’t blame the kids. My husband really couldn’t care less whether we have one or not.
So it’s my fault. I moan every year about buying it, putting it up, taking it down. Yet the following year I do it all again.
Why?
Besides the smell, I think it’s the tradition. My family always had a real tree, so for me, Christmas means a real tree.
And when it’s up, for that first week when I’ve remembered to water it and the central heating hasn’t killed it, a real tree does look gorgeous.
Before the droop.
A little advertising…
I just wish it still looked as gorgeous on Christmas Day….
November 19, 2016
November 11, 2016
What I Learnt This Week – blog posts
I’d thought I’d share with you a few posts and interviews I’ve done over the last week to celebrate the launch of A Second Christmas Wish.
I like to think it’s like being a celebrity, rushed from chat show to radio show to be interviewed about my latest release. Only my publicity was more virtual. More sitting at my desk staring a my computer screen like a do every day of the week.
I didn’t even get to wear a sparkly dress.
So, in case you’re interested in what I’ve been saying…
I was interviewed by Rachel Dove here.
The lovely Dreaming With Open Eyes invited me to write a post on Letters to Father Christmas here.
And finally, I also appeared as a guest on From First Page to Last here.
Wow – all this stardom is going to my head. Pass me the champagne, someone.
November 3, 2016
What I Learnt this week: 3rd November 2016
When is it too early to talk about Christmas?
People seem to sit in three camps when it comes to Christmas.
In Camp One the mince pies are cooking in the oven, the cake was made last month and the cards are being lovingly crafted using glitter and stencils. In this camp, Christmas is the focus of the year.
In Camp Two they know Christmas is coming, know they have a lot to plan but are going to carry on sticking their head in the sand for a while longer before they start doing anything about it. In this camp, Christmas is okay as long as it sticks to December.
In Camp Three, they switch over at the first sign of a Christmas advert/programme, avoid the high street for the next two months and get on a plane to somewhere hot and sunny from 20th December for two weeks. In this camp, they’d rather we didn’t have Christmas at all.
As a child I was firmly in the first camp, without the baking of mince pies/cakes or making of cards. Basically, it was all about Father Christmas and the presents he might bring me.
As an adult I’ve been sat in the second for a long, long time, wandering briefly into the first camp for a few years when the boys were small as I shared their excitement. Though again, there was no baking or card making involved…
This year, I marched right back into the first camp again – thanks to my latest book, A Second Christmas Wish. I wrote it last year (during Easter…) but I’ve known it was coming out since the start of this year, signed a contract for it around Easter and started editing it during the summer. So Christmas has definitely been on my mind all year. But no, of course I haven’t made the mince pies, cake or cards. I haven’t had the time, what with all the writing and editing.
Well here we are, the first week in November, and I’m excited to tell you A Second Christmas Wish has just been published on Amazon (and all other eBook platforms).
So if you’re one of those people who don’t want to think about Christmas until December, perhaps you could bear it in mind? Even download it onto your Kindle, ready to get you into the Christmas mood. If you love Christmas anyway, you’ve already made the cake, bought and wrapped your presents, written your hand crafted cards and have so much time on your hands now you’ll surely be able to catch up with some reading?
And if you’re firmly stuck in Camp 3 and rather Christmas didn’t exist, perhaps you could ignore all the tinsel, fairy lights and pine trees, and focus on the romance?!
October 20, 2016
What I Learnt This Week: 20th October 2016
It’s been three weeks since we dropped our eldest son off at university for the first time. Three weeks of staring at the empty place at the dinner table. Three weeks of not ordering the food he likes when I do my on line shop. Three weeks of walking past his empty bedroom.
So what have I learnt about being the parent of a male Fresher?
They will spend the first three weeks having cold after cold. Apparently this is normal, and those throat lozenges he mocked when I slipped them into his packing (what can I say, I’m an ex pharmacist) came in handy.
He will message you regularly, but only to ask questions like how can he get Sky Sports on his computer.
They need a list of easy menu ideas – they quickly get bored of pizza. A ‘first shop’ list is useful, too, if only to make sure they eat something that’s vaguely good for them.
If you suggest he packs a large rucksack because he might go visiting friends at other universities for the weekend, it will be used to bring dirty washing home. That is my treat this weekend.
He will have forgotten everything you told him about cooking before he left, though that does have an upside because you do get a phone call. If only to ask how you know when onions are done enough to add mince. Or how to fry an egg.
He will be going to bed as you’re waking up.
If you use a message app like WhatsApp, even if he’s not actually communicating with you, you can see what time he last looked at his messages so you know he’s still alive. This comes in handy when he messages at 11pm telling you he’s off to a Neon Rave Party…
He will grow up almost overnight, going on pub crawls with people he’s never met, hoping on the night bus, joining clubs, cooking himself bacon and eggs. Things he would never have done at home.
As for me, I am trying to learn not to look at the empty place on the sofa with sadness, but with pride. My son worked his socks off and is now doing the course he wanted to do, in the place he wanted to be. He’s growing up, moving into the next phase of his life and already I can tell, in between the hard work, he’s going to have a ball. He even gets to walk past this every day on his way to lectures.
Royal Albert Hall from Prince Consort Road
And I still get to see him when he comes home. And I still get to wash his smelly socks.
October 7, 2016
What I Learnt this week: Christmas wishes
And no, sprouts don’t feature.
I’m excited to report that my next book, A Second Christmas Wish, will be published by Choc Lit on all eBook platforms (Amazon, Kobo etc) on the 1st of November. And it’s available for pre-order on iBooks now!
If you missed it, here is the sparkly cover:
And a taster of what the book is about:
Do you believe in Father Christmas?
For Melissa, Christmas has always been overrated. From her cold, distant parents to her manipulative ex-husband, Lawrence, she’s never experienced the warmth and contentment of the festive season with a big, happy family sitting around the table.
And Melissa has learned to live with it, but it breaks her heart that her seven-year-old son, William, has had to live with it too. Whilst most little boys wait with excitement for the big day, William finds it difficult to believe that Father Christmas even exists.
But then Daniel McCormick comes into their lives. And with his help, Melissa and William might just be able to find their festive spirit, and finally have a Christmas where all of their wishes come true …
A Second Chrismas Wish features many Christmas favourites like pine trees and fairy lights, Christmas stockings, mince pies and turkey…but I need to warn you, there are no sprouts. The thing is, I don’t actually like the little green devils. They look cute, I’ll grant them that, but in my experience they’re either under cooked and fly off the plate when you try to spear one, or are overcooked and smell as badly as they taste (it’s all that sulforaphane they contain).
And then of course there’s the fact that their name is sneaky, often catching us simple writers out. Is it Brussel sprout or Brussels? I daren’t write about the things because I didn’t want to get it wrong, though I believe it’s Brussels sprouts, named after the capital of the country in which they were originally grown. They’re sneaky little things though and may just be telling me that to make me look stupid.
Just like they try to make me look full of hot air at Christmas.
September 29, 2016
What I learnt this week: 29th September 2016
When the juggling stops
I write romantic fiction. It’s true…but not all the time. To earn some money, but also because I enjoy the challenge, enjoy keeping the science part of me ticking over, I’m also a medical writer. I juggle my time between the two, depending on how much medical writing I have on and whether I have publishing deadlines.
I’ve done this for four years now and I love it. So far I haven’t got the two confused.
The juggling has stopped for a while though and my medical writing has taken over, demanding all my time. And boy am I missing the romance (you know, the stuff I write. Not the stuff my husband provides because you can’t miss something you’ve never had). For over twenty years the science part of me was all I had, but I’ve been spoilt these last few years, allowed to indulge my dream.
Now when I’m meant to be focussing on science, part of my brain wants to wander. It’s aching to go back to the characters whose lives I’ve been enjoying playing with, moulding, shaping. Of course I will get back to them, but for now they are in freeze frame.
The break from them has reminded me how lucky I am to have that side to me now. And even though I’m not actually writing my romance, I’m delighted to say my Christmas book, A Second Christmas Wish, is still progressing behind the scenes. It’s currently being proof read, the blurb has been drafted and I’ve seen a couple of potential covers (love that part!).
So while I’ll still be medical writing over the next few weeks I will be looking forward to sharing more details of A Second Christmas Wish with you. Funny how I usually hate anybody talking about Christmas before December yet here I am, waffling on about it already. Come on, you need to get into the spirit too, so you might be persuaded to indulge in my next book.
Here, maybe these pictures will help. No? You wanted mince pies? Okay, I’ll try and work on that. In between all this pesky medical writing…
