A very happy New Year to writers everywhere. Do you have an inner drive to write? Is a day with writing in it happier than a day without? You’re a writer.

The run-up to the festivities was so busy that I forgot to post some marvellous news. As well as London Grip publishing Palm Tree Victory – a poem of love and victory I wrote in honour of my darling Auntie Jean – in early December, the Mary Evans Picture Library Poems and Pictures blog published Beach Hut Christmas. Just before the holidays too. Greenwich publisher Live Canon commissioned it in 2018 and it has been lived out with great happiness at my beach hut here on the north Kent coast, UK.

I wish you happiness and fulfilment in your writing and many happy scribble-treats in the year to come.