“An unusually good coffee machine but yards away..” a review of camping in the postage stamp garden SE3
It’s been kind of warm lately, no? Kind of wake up in the middle of the night wondering how you will make it through August warm. And as flooding sunshine drowned out the bedroom I thought, this...
The Greenwich COVID testing site. An event to leave the house for!
After two days of convincing myself that my temperature was due to heat stroke, the sore throat to hayfever, the cough to asthma and the seeming inability to stand up and make a cup of tea was due...
Emanating Kombucha cordial rays – more tales from Lockdown SE3
All this means that while the world races towards a COVID vaccine/cure/test, I will be performing my own internal experiment. When I have ‘worked down’ this supply of off-beat health foods, will I be superwoman an anti-Covid glowing lamp emanating my kombucha rays
“ I don’t often buy carrot cake…” a review of Severn Droog Castle Cakes, SE18
I don’t often buy carrot cake. I usually look at it on the counter and frown, and say “I’ll sample that sometime”.
Yay I needed to move to Tunbridge Wells
There has been an odd entwining of my writing side and my slightly out of step side... the extra time in the day without the commute, the extra worry... I am turning into ‘disgusted from Tunbridge...
Wouldn’t want to end up in A&E with indigestion right now – More tales from lockdown SE3
To these nouveau-borlotti- purchasers, i ask, are you actually eating them, or turning them into necklaces with your kids?
Crisis exposes evidence for existence of sock monster – More Tales from Lockdown SE3
Compounding the concern of ‘keeping people in jobs’ is my recent sock monster discovery. I’ll admit, there has been much debate about the existence of a sock monster, but my conversion over the social distancing period to trouser only outfits has proved beyond doubt that there is sock monster. I ran out of socks in two days. TWO DAYS!
How to share the kitchen, I mean the office… more Tales from Lockdown SE3
There’s one sort of house layout needed for everyday life; there’s another sort of layout needed for world domination (google ‘piranhas’... see!) and there’s a special sort of layout for lockdown. I...
Kindness Matters
I’ve been trying to promote kindness in a novel I have coming out in September, inspired by people I’ve known in deprived areas of London who’s tragic pasts are woven into their lives but do not...
Helen and the Grandbees
Just to let you know, you can watch me discussing my novel “Helen and the Grandbees” with fellow author Awais Khan, here: https://www.instagram.com/tv/CALVMFXp2y-/?igshid=j97umylv1mru Helen and the...
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Canary Wharf Clouds
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A Few More Of My Blog Posts
“Mr Whippy it ain’t” – A review of Dark Sugars Chocolate shop in Greenwich
We ended up outside the Dark Sugars Chocolate shop after a lunchtime lockdown walk. I peered in, half desirously but also wincing a little at the open pools of chocolate delights. Ingestion of chocolate isn’t strictly listed as a WHO contamination risk... but just...
“Panster or Plotter – How to Get the Novel on the Page”
Writers.ie have published my article “Panster or Plotter -How to get the novel on the page” https://www.writing.ie/resources/panster-or-plotter-the-best-way-to-get-a-novel-onto-the-page-by-alex-morrall/ “One freebie e-book I read, advised taking your plot, breaking...
“The sausage and fried egg bap, went beyond the promise of its name” A review of Heaps Sausages Greenwich SE10
Hotdogs, like waffles on Parisian streets are one of those things that for most vendors, give homage to great food, whilst usually failing to deliver great food. Good news… Heap’s ain’t one of them.
Driving Through The Hills of Birmingham
Womenwriters has published my article, Driving Through The Hills of Birmingham about balancing the disciplines of art and writing, and how they interlink: https://booksbywomen.org/driving-through-the-hills-of-birmingham/ “I was never supposed to be an artist. It crept...
Some walks from Oxleas Woods SE18
Have you ordered my debut novel, HELEN AND THE GRANDBEES yet? Described by the Daily Mail as ‘Engaging and Uplifting’ its the perfect read for an autumn lockdown. In stock at all major bookstores, but this link will support local...
I wasn’t supposed to be at the Booker Prize Party…
I can’t think of many people who would say, when invited to the event of their lives, “can I bring my two grownup daughters too, please?” but that was pretty much what my mum, Clare Morrall did when in 2003 she was unexpectedly shortlisted for the Booker Prize for...