Gill Garrett - A Writer's Blog

Today should have seen us off to Scotland, for a week walking in the Trossachs, a week pursuing some research for a biography I'm workin...

My father, Roland Garrett, in 1941 The period around the Second World War is one that interests me a lot and I've written a fair amo...

What a strange month April was - in more ways than just having the unusually great weather! Our first full calendar month of lockdown and al...

I'm delighted to read that These Are The Hands - Poems From The Heart Of The NHS  (eds. Deborah Alma and Katie Amiel, Fair Acre Press)...

You would think that self-isolating would allow so much time for writing, making progress with projects, moving forwards. But I seem to be i...

I've been using my one permitted outing of the day for early morning walks with the dog in our local (deserted) woods.  This mornin...

I was thinking this morning about the contribution of writers and the value of the written word in these increasingly stressful times - cert...