by Marg Roberts | Jun 21, 2019 | Uncategorized
Car after car, vans, lorries, double decker buses and a cyclist in red shorts pause five flights below our hotel window. Across the four lanes of traffic, another hotel; its lift slips up and down, down and back up. People drag luggage across the road, pass the...
by Marg Roberts | Apr 29, 2019 | Uncategorized
When I first started writing, I had no idea: about what I would write- novel, poetry, memoir- or how my life would change. For over 20 years I had been a probation officer, my day varied but dominated by deadlines. As an unpublished writer, there were no prescribed...
by Marg Roberts | Feb 22, 2019 | Uncategorized
When I was a little girl living on the edge of a small town, I used to climb the trees behind our houses. Until I read books by Robert MacFarlane, I thought it was an activity confined to childhood but no it is (or was?) something he enjoyed into his 40s. Trees were...
by Marg Roberts | Jan 8, 2019 | Uncategorized
Several years ago I had a car accident. Until that point I had enjoyed driving because it gave me the sense of freedom and independence I now get from cycling. Prior to the accident, I drove a white Lambretta scooter which I loved despite falling off in the Pennine...
by Marg Roberts | Nov 15, 2018 | Uncategorized
Autumn has been particularly beautiful this year. In our garden it began with the reds on our Virginia Creeper and has now mellowed to golds, yellows and oranges of the acer. Acer in our garden We often visit Batsford Arboretum at Moreton-in-Marsh but we tried the...
by Marg Roberts | Oct 4, 2018 | Uncategorized
This September we returned to Brittany on our bikes after an absence of three years. We parked our car at Portsmouth’s Ferry Port multi-storey car park and travelled overnight to St. Malo. The crossing was calm and we chatted to other cyclists- most, I imagined,...
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