I have been taken to task, quite rightly, by someone who got to know Nancy in the late 60s, and who she worked with on projects for young offenders, and who points out that this part of Nancy’s life is … Continue reading →

Today is my sister’s birthday – just over 18 months since she died. And bad news has come about a very old friend, so amid all the Jubilee manufactured jollity, this turns out to be a time when one turns … Continue reading →

The Fowey Festival – the du Maurier Festival – was a real pleasure. It’s interesting for me to be in conversation with someone else – in this case the very competent and engaging Helen Taylor – because for once I … Continue reading →

Just leaving now to catch the train down to Cornwall, weekend with friends and then the Du Maurier Festival on Monday (at 4, for anyone who feels like coming!). I am being interviewed by Helen Taylor from Exeter University – … Continue reading →

Yesterday would have been Nancy’s 100th birthday – not that I think she would have particularly wanted to reach 100 unless she could have been assured good mental and physical health. But since Amateurs was designed to appear for the … Continue reading →