Just The Day For A Jersey Soft Whip Ice Cream

Britain is sweltering in a heatwave. If I was still living in Jersey I would have driven to either St Ouens Bay or St Brelades Bay (other beaches are available) and spent a few hours in the sun, but I now live in Poole and the beaches whilst soft and golden are thronged. So it’s […]

Banana Bread Recipe

I don’t know about you but I seem to fight a constant battle between what I should buy and what I want to buy. Bananas are a prime example. Whilst I like the taste of a banana I’m not keen on the texture, but I know that they are good for you so when I […]

Breakfast is one of the best meals of the day…..

in my humble opinion breakfast is one of the best meals of the day. Along with lunch and dinner of course. There is a saying; eat breakfast like a King, lunch like a Prince and dinner like a pauper. Well my constant battle with my weight is because I breakfast like a King and then […]

Release Day: The Channel Islands Bake-Off Murder

It’s the release day of The Channel Islands Bake-Off Murder, previously self-published as Beating The Competition. In this book, the second of the eight books based in Gull Bay, April is thrilled when she’s invited to judge a high-profile TV bake-off over the May Day holiday weekend. It’s the perfect chance to put the Sea […]

Clouds and Cherry Pie

We are in Gran Canaria for a week, trying but failing to find some spring sun. We travel out to Gran Canaria several times over the winter, I always say I should have been born further south because I love the sun and hate the cold, but this week, even in Gran Canaria we’ve been […]

Release Day: The Channel Islands Mystery

It’s release day for The Channel Islands Mystery, previously self-published as Burned At The Bake, and I’m so grateful for all the work that the team at Joffe Books has put into bringing this book to market. If you want to buy the book, it’s available on Amazon for 99p.

Welcome to Gull Bay

I now have a release date for the first book in the Gull Bay Mysteries. The Channel Islands Mystery which was previously called Burned At The Bake is set for release on the 16th March and I can’t wait for it to be back for sale on Amazon. In advance of the book being re-released […]

Joffe Books Acquires The Rights To The Gull Bay Mysteries

Exciting news today is that Joffe Books, a leading independent publisher based in the UK has acquired the rights to The Gull Bay Mysteries, a series of eight cozy mysteries based in the fictional village of Gull Bay in the Channel Islands. I began this series in the midst of the Covid pandemic, when after […]