On digging my creative life at sixty

and laying a few things on the line here on Substack...

Dear friends,

An hour here, or twenty minutes there, to write to you, squeezed between heaps of activity.

Outside, diggers scrape and shape the earth where, this time last year, contractors demolished the old farm. Work has begun to prepare the ground for sixteen new houses.

Inside our cottage, I alternate between writing at my desk and decorating. Today, …