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Time is a healer
A song came on the radio on Tuesday as I was driving and before I could blink the tears started rolling down my cheeks. Big fat tears of...


Holidays in New Quay, West Wales
In August last year we holidayed in West Wales, we loved it so much that this year the May half term was spent in the same place in New...
On writing
Right. I am by no means a writer, I write words that I hope people will enjoy and might resonate with the reader, some might switch off...


Nellie Knows : 26 August 2016
This first appeared in The Wokingham Paper on Friday 26 August 2016 Whilst my local friends were rewinding in Henley dressed in ra ra...
Scuffed shoes and muddy knees
Today was the first day of term, a biggie in the world of new terms in our house as the smallest and loudest has left behind the...


Moving on
Well it's not long until my youngest and smallest heads off to senior school. She's fine about it as her big sister is still there and...


Wildflower Bay by Rachael Lucas
Who wouldn't want to be in Wildflower Bay, an away from it idyll on the cusp of change with a snip of the hairdresser scissors. Rachael...


Nellie Knows : 5 August 2016
This first appeared as my column Nellie Knows in The Wokingham Paper Loving the stress free mornings of the school holidays and the lack...


Nellie Knows : 8 April 2016
This first appeared in The Wokingham Paper on 8 April 2016 It's been a strange week as I've been at home with one child whilst Big Welsh...


Nellie Knows : 11 March 2016
My column for The Wokingham Paper - 11 March 2016 I really do love this time of year, everywhere I look I see daffodils, the mornings are...