December 2008
And so it is Advent Sunday and the beginning of the Christmas season in all its mystery and strangeness. Already in the Cotswolds it has begun to snow, and in my studio my stove is flaring red, and through the long windows there is the white of the snow and the grey underside of birds' wings.
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November 2008
Yippee! No more moose Mom! Sarah Palin is back in Alaska! How happy are we? God Bless America! You did it!
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October 2008
What are we going to do about Sarah Palin? As far as I am concerned it will be like having the late Mrs Winterson in the White House; something she would have enjoyed hugely, but the rest of us, less so.
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September 2008
This is the time of year I love best. It is probably because it is my birthday season, and whatever else is happening, did happen, I think I was very happy to be born. My advice to anyone is, get born.
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August 2008
All right, I admit it, I have been avoiding the website. Actually I have been avoiding as much as possible that isn't my kids' book because I love writing it, and once again, work has saved me, in the sense of taking me to a better place.
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June 2008
This is it! The new site up and running! I am very excited about it, and thank you for your patience. This is a major make-over in terms of look and reorganisation, and I hope everyone likes it. Do let us know your thoughts.
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March 2008
There is so little that one can say, one says it all.
I find myself thinking of these lines from Beckett's HAPPY DAYS more and more often. I once wrote 'Words are the part of silence that can be spoken.' And again, I said, 'Every word written is a net to catch the word that has escaped.'
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February 2008
As I write this on the day of paying tax, Jan 31st, I am thinking about what responsibility means in a society that doesn't recognise it.
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January 2008
Honour the fate you are...
That's from the Auden poem ATLANTIS in our January Poem of the Month. It seems like a good thing to remember, surfing into the New Year, with all its challenges and surprises, difficulties and dreams. I don't want it to sound like I believe in pre-destination - fate is never that, but it is the web of possibilities from which we unthread our particular journey.
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