My hometown of Lewes in the UK can look grey on a rainy day. This is the view, this morning, from one of my windows. Depressing you might think – wet slate roofs, grey sky, shiny tar-macadam roads, damp brickwork…
Last week I was having a light lunch at home. It was delicious, a smoked salmon salad followed by a rather juicy pear. Nothing crunchy or chewy to wreck havoc in my mouth so no reason for the sudden and…
I’ve been running a poetry group here in Lewes for a year now. We took a summer break and made an amicable agreement with our previous venue, both sides agreeing that it had been great but it was time to…
Early morning in the garden at this time of year, here in Lewes, UK and the spiders have already added their artwork to the scenery. Their dewy webs bring spectacular ornaments to my camellia, irises, roses and lavender bushes. Their…
I’ve finally made it to the pages of my local newspaper, the Sussex Express, who have decided to run a “human interest” piece on the imminent publication of my novel, Stephen Dearsley’s Summer Of Love. It’s always interesting to see…
I’ve been writing recently about a weekend I spent early this month traveling around the Kent coastline. In previous blogs I’ve described my visits to Whitstable, Broadstairs and Margate and today I’ll bring the series to an end at Dover,…
I’ve been writing about a pleasant weekend trip I took earlier this month around the coast of Kent in the UK. After Whitstable and Broadstairs, I visited another well-known Kentish seaside resort, Margate which now houses Turner Contemporary, a handsome…
It’s now not just officially Autumn but my garden here in Lewes UK agrees. It has decided to prove that Autumn can be every bit as colourful as Summer and, this year, it looks better than ever. I’m enjoying the…
I was at the the Poetry Society’s Poetry Café in Covent Garden, London on Friday for a poetry event hosted by my publishers, Ward Wood Publishing. I’d never been there before thinking that it might be a rather forbidding environment…
Last weekend, I spent some encouraging and depressing time in London. Encouraging because I was attending two terrific events and two great London institutions – Tate Britain and the National Theatre. Depressing because both places were putting on work by…