I will be reading at this event alongside my award winning, multi published Paisley Poetry Pals, Morag Smith, Kathryn Metcalfe and Mairi Murphy. Booking required.
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Kind of obsssed with the Rennie Mackintosh lights in House for an Art Lover.
Met a man whose son is now following him at Glasgow School of Art. He will never know the beauty of the old building.

Exotic new residents came for a visit yesterday. Must have enjoyed sitting in my apple trees. Parakeets returned this morning and took control of the bird feeder. Poor little blue tits. This IS Scotland.

When writing up the research gets too much, my stand in takes over.

Thrawn

I am a dangerous woman,
I have a voice.

A flock of these tiny finches arrived in an explosion of colour and spent a few hours feeding in my garden this morning. Off to explore further north.

Sometimes when you hear the crazy you just need to breathe.

@dunnettcentral.bsky.social
Weaving historical figures into Niccolo novels.
Found in the Pinacoteca di Brera

@dunnettcentral.bsky.social could almost represent Lymmond's travels across the Mediterranean. Art I found in Cefalu on Sicily is similar to those found on the Akrotiri frescoe.

When you discover your window cleaner speaks Gaelic and your head is still in novel writing mode you swap words in Gaelic and the ancient Norse dialect of Norn. Then talk about the languages expressed in the landscape. You walk away in your happy place. @asls.org.uk

Janice invited me on to her BBC Scotland Culture show to discuss the collective Women With Fierce Words which was founded to support women's voice. It exemplifies Janice's support of writers in Scotland. She compared my poetry to Maya Angelou. The biggest accolade I have ever received.
Miss you.

I started photographing the mysterious world on the tops of fence posts on nearby farmland 5yrs ago.

8 yrs ago I was invited to write in Milan's Pinacoteca di Brera. I made a return visit in June 2024. This time I got to visit one of the most beautiful libraries in the world, Biblioteca di Brera.