A middle aged Saturday in the style of Mrs Dalloway. I examine nostalgia, grief, class, and keeping my emotional resilience whilst still moving, still loving, still noticing. The incessant chatter stopped, and silence fell over the coffee shop, just for a moment, until it started again. The two women, friends, were talking loudly, full of…
As my creative life has evolved, I’ve felt called to create this new category on my writing blog – The Velvet Hollow (previously on Substack). It is where I will write more personally about grief, healing, and the quiet magic woven through life. As well as my writing life I am also the creator of a…
This is Clara. She mysteriously appears in your home. On her arrival strange things start to happen. Household items are moved into different places. Things go bump in the night. Strange whisperings follow you round the house. Cold energy seems to shudder through you. Doors slam and lights flicker. You begin to wonder where she…
A big hole has opened upnow you are gone.There is no laughterthere are no tears.There is no focal pointto pass away our years. You showed us the way in lifeand how to get alongduring good times and bad,sometimes you made us madbut always gave to othersyour cheerful happy song. Now we must learn to get…
In June 2023 I had an article published in Best of British magazine, all about my late father Ray Scanlon (known as ‘Ray the Print’) and his printing business in Watford. It was used in their ‘Yesterday Remembered’ section. I was very pleased to have this article published as a tribute to my Dad. He…
My lovely Dad sadly died in hospital this Autumn after a long period of illness. His funeral was on the 9th November 2022 at West Herts Crematorium and I was very pleased to write and read out my own personal tribute to him. Here it is below, for posterity
