(In the deep mid-winter of 2003/4, I hit upon the idea of walking the 630-mile South West Coast Path. I envisioned this would take as long as it took although my tentative plan was to make two week-long trips each year over four years. I invited many of my friends to accompany me on each leg Read the full article…

(An extract from Chapter 9 of ‘The Ragged Weave of Yesterday’ by Andy Christopher Miller. The verbatim extracts in italics are from the 1972 volume of my diaries) Mon 22nd May 1972 – The school was a very pleasant building – an old village school hall with new rooms built into it … There were Read the full article…

For a number of years now, I have been meeting with this little group – Frances, Angela, and Paul (plus Gaynor who took the photo) – to exchange and critique each other’s writing. These monthly occasions take place at Nottingham Writer’s Studio and combine, certainly for me, high-quality feedback and suggestions on my actual writing with more general encouragement to persist when Read the full article…