Many supermarkets sell caterpillar cakes. Sally and I created our own for a book we are writing. There are two variations: a brilliant green lemon curd caterpillar or a beautiful raspberry pink one. Makes a swiss roll 33 cm long The basic cake 4 large eggs, 100 g caster sugar, 100 g self-raising flour The… Continue reading Caterpillar Cakes
Month: August 2023
From Book Lovers: Favourites
This week I received two copies of my books in the post: Bedside Companion for Book Lovers and A Nature Poem for Every Day. Book Lovers is on its second printing and Nature Day (the book’s everyday title) is on its eleventh. Huge thanks to all the bookshops, gift shops and museum shops which have… Continue reading From Book Lovers: Favourites
Catalogues
For the last ten years or so I have written catalogues for Hatchards. There were annual Christmas catalogues, which included the best books published that year. They covered all subjects, with about two hundred titles ranging from history and business to children’s and cookery. In 2015 and 2016 respectively, I wrote catalogues on novels and… Continue reading Catalogues
Woodland Poems
I am often asked which poems are my favourites. It is, of course, an impossible question. As with so many things my favourite poems change according to the seasons, my mood, what I am reading at the time and even which anthology I am compiling. With each new anthology I make new discoveries and remember… Continue reading Woodland Poems