According to the Webster Dictionary, a potpourri is a miscellaneous collection and that is appropriate for my plans for this blog.

I’ll write about what I’m doing, my thoughts on current events and quirky happenings, my dogs, and anything else that interests me. Of course, I hope that it will interest other people as well.

I live in Wiltshire, a county in the South of England, my health is not great so I’m semi-retired but still write compulsively, mostly on Squidoo where I was recently made a Giant Squid – trust me, that’s good!

I’ve worked on specialist newspapers and magazines for many years but went freelance in 1988. I’ve had two books published on buying antiques as well as articles in magazines and writing online for 10 years now.

Not only am I a compulsive writer, I’m on a compulsive reader too. I read all kinds of books from thrillers to classics. I’m passionately interested in politics and current affairs. I believe if you don’t vote, you shouldn’t complain about what politicians do. Watching people in South Africa, after the fall of the apartheid regime, standing in line for hours to vote for the very first time in their lives brought tears to my eyes. It brought home to me how lucky we are in the UK and other democratic countries to have this right.