Last week I was invited to host a session for The Gossip Collective https://gossipcollective.weebly.com/ using creativity as a strategy for managing difficulties. Difficulties relating to #Covid and beyond. For many people, adults and children, #mentalhealth has been adversely affected due to lock down, financial struggles, overcrowding, lack of personal space and uncertainty. When will we be able to hug, go to school, hang out with friends at the pub et al? In his poem The

I have been in the house for the last seven days. It started off with snow and ice and not having the right shoes that would prevent me from going legs akimbo and upending myself. Not a good look on anyone, but especially not a 63 year old wearing big knickers ala #bridgetjones! I ordered some shoe grips online which arrived last Friday, but no pun intended, I was also firmly gripped with my own agenda, working from home and to finish at least 25,000 words of my new novel,