I am sitting here today, on the 28th day of June 2021, at the age of 59, in our new fancy apartment in Brighton. (It's far too fancy to be called a flat btw, it's pretty much the perfect penthouse I always imagined living in when I was older, except it's not on the top floor, but on the penultimate floor in this block.) Not older, yet, either. Well, certainly not as old as I'd envisaged I'd have to be, to live in an apartment like this. Brand new, still sparkling clean, full of brand new … [Read more...]
Washing Up, Pets & Other Loves
While washing up today, I heard that Rickie Gervais and his partner Jane had lost their beloved cat Ollie. No, they hadn’t actually lost him, he’d died. There were outpourings of sympathy from those who insist on calling pets ‘fur babies’ and videos of Jonathan Ross giving Ollie to Ricky live on his television show sixteen years ago. Ollie had enjoyed good innings and was now trending No 4 on Twitter UK, something I’m sure Rickie and Jane will find highly amusing, in months to come when the … [Read more...]
GriefWalker | A Thoughtful & Beautiful Film About Death
Griefwalker, Tim Wilson, provided by the National Film Board of Canada Since Steve died I've been very interested in death, dying and grief. How it happens, what happens afterwards, how grief feels, how people handle it, how I handled it. This documentary introduces us to Stephen Jenkinson, once the leader of a palliative care counselling team at Toronto's Mount Sinai Hospital. Through his daytime job, he has been at the deathbed of well over 1,000 people. What he sees over and over, he … [Read more...]
Why Am I Here Starting This?
Listen & subscribe online at Anchor.com Subscribe via iTunes | Stitcher | YouTube(coming soon) Nicola Cairncross is breathing life into a brand she's had on ice for a while now - SwaggerAndSoul.com. What is it all about? Why is she doing it and what's in it for you? Prefer To Read? Okay, well here we are, welcome everybody, it's Nicola Cairncross here, and I am going to talk to you today about why Swagger and Soul, what is it. What is it? Is it a new brand, … [Read more...]
Why Do We Do It?
Playing Catch-Up!
I was lying on a sunbed on Stoupa Beach today when I discovered that I'd let the domain name lapse for SwaggerAndSoul.com! While all my domains are usually on auto-renew, I had some problems with my bank in the early part of the year (very long complicated story!) and my card had declined. This was not because of a lack of cash, but because the account had been closed summarily after a mix-up with companies house and my accountant. Told you it was a long, complicated story. With many … [Read more...]
Stoupa Morning
Sun trips over mountain Sparrows chatter nonsense Naked mulberry trees Claw hands to the sky A drunk tilted lifeguard tower Propped by shining pole The barking dog on cliff roof Drowns out squawking bird Blue glittered sea reflects Storm clouds over mountains © Nicola Cairncross 2018 … [Read more...]
Playing Hookey! A Birthday Roadtrip To Areopoli…
One of the things I love most about being self-employed is having total control over my own diary. My brother Alex arrived from Australia for a few weeks, having just been made redundant from his high flying corporate job after 18 years at the same company. He's already enjoying job and consultancy offers already, but after months of waiting for the axe to fall, he needed a change of scene. On discovering it was my birthday, he found out my favourite thing to do is go to Takis' Fish … [Read more...]
Write Club The Podcast | It’s Mental Health Week
It's Mental Health Awareness Week and we discuss writers who suffered, as well as how mental health is dealt with in novels. Steph tells us about the research she did for "Lacking Grace" and we update each other on how our writing lives are going. Heather reads from her WIP and Nicola and Jackie Smith share what is currently on their bedside tables. Write Club The Podcast is a weekly show for aspiring writers, published authors and readers everywhere. Join Stephanie Rouse, Theresa Stoker, … [Read more...]
Reading From My New Novel & We Talk Writing As Therapy
In today's episode, I read for the first time from my very new novel, we talk about how writing can be very therapeutic and Heather's back on the team. Listen to more episodes and subscribe at WriteClubThePodcast.com … [Read more...]
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