@lissakevans
Novelist (Old Baggage, Small Bomb at Dimperley, Wed Wabbit etc), ex TV producer (Room 101, Father Ted), voracious reader, owner of an adored and ancient dog, desultory gardener, attention span of a flea. lissaevans.com
Huge, asymmetrical blossoming cherry tree, illuminated by streetlight.
Same tree by daylight. The blossoming branches are in the shape of a vast smile.
I keep stopping to admire this magnificent cherry - it’s one tree, not two and the trunk is to the far left (the thin ‘trunk’ in the middle is a downward-dipping branch). It’s a cloud of glory!
I recently finished a 3-month project transcribing letters and documents for an IWM / DCMS project marking the 80th anniversary of VE / VJ Day.
It was a moving and fascinating project.
Here are some of my lessons from the Letters to Loved Ones archive and links to letters I think you should read.
Oh thank you - how fascinating! I've bookmarked and will explore....
That's good to hear.
I'm so glad it helped a bit during that awful day, and I hope that your're able to enjoy good books, music and friends during your current treatment xxx
The Winchester Book Festival is stuffed full of good things - NOT LEAST OF WHICH is me talking to fantastic
Claire Fuller about my book 'Small Bomb at Dimperley', on Sunday 19th April!
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Happy St David's Day - and here's an absolutely gorgeous, emotional rendition of 'Calon Lân' (though I feel slightly sorry for the excited family, waiting for their kid's big telly moment, who discovered their child was dressed as a leek).
www.youtube.com/watch?v=BIDZ...
Happy St David's Day - and here's an absolutely gorgeous, emotional rendition of 'Calon Lân' (though I feel slightly sorry for the excited family, waiting for their kid's big telly moment, who discovered their child was dressed as a leek).
www.youtube.com/watch?v=BIDZ...
Don’t need any sympathy, but I do need a few quid in this crowdfunder so it’s all worth it. I finally get to work on the largest rewilding project in Bath, a place I’ve always called home, on a River that really needs a hand. I just want this to work. www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/warleigh-n...
'It is ...pertinent to ask why the regulator approved a study it now says risks sterilising children, damaging their bones, and impairing their cognition. Everything the MHRA appears to now be concerned [about] was known at the time of approval.'
Ha!
😁😁
Certainly are!
Me too!
Hurrah, and thank you!! Do keep me posted....😁
If I were a lifestyle writer, I'd say 'See how winter aconite adds a much-needed POP of colour to the February garden.' but fortunately I'm not, and all style-related mentions of the word 'pop' are forbidden on my timeline.
Instead, I'm going to comment what a lovely BRIGHT YELLOW they are.
The sort of review I'd like to pin on the wall!
Oh, thank you so much Andrea ! 😊😁
That's so lovely to hear - thank you, Alice!
Oh thank you, Susie!
Oh, great!!
On April 19th I'm in Winchester, in conversation with the brilliant
Claire Fuller, about my book 'Small Bomb at Dimperley'. I'm hoping to get some really left-field and tricky questions - the stuff that comes up at book club meetings! Do come!!
winchesterbooksfestival.com/events/small...
On April 19th I'm in Winchester, in conversation with the brilliant
Claire Fuller, about my book 'Small Bomb at Dimperley'. I'm hoping to get some really left-field and tricky questions - the stuff that comes up at book club meetings! Do come!!
winchesterbooksfestival.com/events/small...
I agree.
Letter from a group of psychiatrist's asking why the 9000 children given puberty blockers at the Tavistock have never been followed up.
A letter from a group of psychiatrists in Today's Times, asking why there was never any follow up of the 9000 children given puberty blockers at the Tavistock clinic.
The Gender clinics failed to follow up on their patients.
The first thing to do before subjecting a new cohort of children to blocked puberty is find the 2,000 or so adults in the UK who were prescribed puberty blockers by GIDS and see how they're doing.
'...the study wasn’t really looking at the impact of puberty blockers per se at all. It compared children who received them immediately with others who received them a year later..'
Haaa!
