Women ambulance drivers WW2 The placard-carrying debutante was a young woman named June Spencer. June had joined the London Auxiliary…
For some time now I’ve been meaning to do a post on symbolism in writing, but haven’t got around to…
Prettying up your WW2 gas mask eased the burden of carrying these unwieldy boxes around. I was thinking over the…
No Hodding is a short story I wrote for a competition back in 2021 which was the 100th anniversary of…
This article was first published on 10 May 2021. Why the Snowy Mountains Scheme? In Keepers, my women’s fiction book…
This article was first published 6 March 2021. Why Post WW2 migrant hostels? Post WW2 migrant hostels – or one…
This multi-award winning story was first published on 13 Dec 2020. Sabrina’s Rising is inspired by the great flood which…
Five Days – Five Nights is a piece of flash fiction inspired by the 1904 Union Pit disaster in the…
This story was first published 6 May 2020. Orchard Kingdom is based on an early Australian childhood experience. The story…
This scene about St George’s Vestry VAD (Voluntary Auxiliary Defence Forces) unit appeared in a draft of The Gift of…