You can read some of my published articles here. 

I am currently finishing off the social history book about the Miners’ Picnic – imaginatively entitled, ‘The Miners’ Picnic’. Sub-heading, ‘Wor day’, ‘wor’ being ‘our’ in Geordie. Not exactly destined for global appeal but it’s the first and so far only book entirely about this unique Northumbrian event which dates back to the 1800s. There will be a website www.minerspicnic.com which is currently under construction.

‘In Sickness and in Health’ is the true story of our most unfortunate wedding and is near completion. It has been described by Ann Gawthorpe and Lesley Bown, comedy script writers and authors of ‘Teach Yourself Writing a Play’ and 'Teach Yourself Writing for Magazines’, as ‘older women’s chick-lit’ and ‘humour in the style of Kathy Lette’.  If I’d been writing a Carry On script I couldn’t have made it up. You can read  extracts from the book here.  And as for the most unusual wedding album ever – our photographers happened to capture some of the drama and posted it on their blog….see here. It can take a while for their photos to load.