Just over to the right you’ll notice 2 audio players. These are sets from my Soundcloud account. The first track is a free download, just click that little “Download” button, another window will open, a download will start and y…
With 20 minutes to go, I was getting a little nervous. Having recently cycled from the UK to Singapore, I was full of confidence and had jumped onto a plane at Bangkok without so much as thinking about getting a visa for my destination, Taiwan. The wor…
I’ve created a new blog for my 2012 Swenglish-project.Please check it out here: http://swenglish2012.blogspot.com/(I’ll still use this blog, Living Lou, to write about other topics.)
In honour of the season of romance – and in a un-schmaltzy, non-commercial fashion, Story Scavenger is back in February for another FREE creative writing workshops at Brighton Waterstones, this time on the theme of LURVE. Come and join us on February…
We got the New Year off to a rollicking start at Waterstones on Thursday, with a writing workshop on resolutions and outrageous wishes. When it comes to creating characters; wishes, dreams, hopes and resolutions are powerful ways of getting to the hear…
Are you one of those people who turns up 5 minutes early and starts tapping your foot if others are 5 minutes late? I read an interesting blog post about cultural attitudes towards time that has got me thinking. I … Continue reading →
Today was a good day.I woke up at around 10 and listened to Excess Baggage, a travel programme on Radio 4. One of the guests was a veteran woman adventurer who’d travelled south and east Asia solo in the 1950s. I imagined her to be a spirited woman who…
As promised, I’ve started updating my Tea Appreciation Blog for the new year and it’s dead fun. Pointless and silly, perhaps – but dead fun all the same.
First week back at work after Christmas. Made it to the weekend. Tired, but picked up on a Friday evening with the discovery of this little gem.
When I came across Sam O’Hare’s beautiful tilt-shift/time lapse video of New York and a later clip o…
