Tag Archives: Alan Cadbury

Nearly A Real Writer!

Posted on May 22, 2013 by

If I am completely honest with myself (something I try to do as infrequently as possible) I’ve always wanted to be a real writer. ‘But you are!’ I hear my sheepdog Twink bark loyally from outside my office’s open window. … Continue reading →

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For Where is Chatteris?

Posted on May 21, 2013 by

I can’t think that I’ve lived for as long as I have without discovering the band Half Man Half Biscuit. I thought my life was complete after buying the Leyton Buzzards’ double-sided classic ‘I Don’t Want to Go to Art … Continue reading →

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Of Crowd-funding and Writing

Posted on May 14, 2013 by

Or should that be: on writing and crowd-funding? In other words, which comes first? I began musing along these lines when I finished Chapter 6 (of 10) in the book I’m currently writing for Penguin. I’d been discussing the impact … Continue reading →

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Hold Everything! Alan Cadbury Image Discovered

Posted on May 9, 2013 by

I’ve been trying to find a picture of Alan Cadbury because the nice people at Unbound thought I ought to give him some publicity in my blog, what with Hay-on-Wye coming up and everything. But when it came to looking through … Continue reading →

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Forget the Nuclear Winter: It’s a Nuclear Spring!

Posted on May 3, 2013 by

I was planning to write a nice considered blog about planting potatoes and broad beans – both jobs that I would normally do in mid- or late March – but it has been such a late season. The trouble with … Continue reading →

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Writing About Writing: People

Posted on May 1, 2013 by

When I was a teenager I remember reading somewhere that an author – quite a famous one, I think – had to write. I can remember at the time I cringed. It sounded so precious and so pseudo-sensitive. Then, as … Continue reading →

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At Last: Late Spring Flowers

Posted on April 27, 2013 by

Lambing has finished and yesterday we gave the last batch their protective inoculations before releasing them from the barn and out to pasture. They still have open access to the shelter of the barn, should they need it, but they … Continue reading →

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A Festive Spring (With Gynaecological Rhubarb)

Posted on March 31, 2013 by

This cold weather has held everything back, except one or two of our ewes who have had prolapses. This normally happens in the last weeks before lambing and is a result of a shortage of space in the body cavity, … Continue reading →

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Not Losing the Plot

Posted on March 29, 2013 by

I’m sometimes asked how I manage to combine sheep farming with writing. A follow-up question is often about the difficulty of getting back into the swing of writing, after a period away from it. I suspect both would be answered … Continue reading →

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The Long View: from the Floor

Posted on March 5, 2013 by

Introductory Note This is the original version of the item I posted in the Independent blog. As ever, I over-wrote and then had to cut it back to 800 words, which is what they’d requested in the first place. Trouble … Continue reading →

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