by Jenny Dixon | Jun 19, 2023 | News
Once upon a time in our kitchen our twice-a-week ‘cook’ – Twias, produced an amazingly good curry on a Friday night. We, the other twice-a-week cooks, were semi-ecstatic and, in our curried bliss, we mentally added this to the list of dishes that we’d secretly...
by Jenny Dixon | Jul 12, 2021 | News
When I was a teenager, I took up judo. I didn’t do this because I wanted to become a champion – I had no such ambitions, I did it so I could learn to defend myself. I think I’d also reached that extraordinary moment in the life of a sixteen-year-old where a little...
by Jenny Dixon | Jul 7, 2021 | News
My long-drawn-out attempt at a memoir and what it taught me. When I went to live in Zimbabwe, I was in the middle of re-reading Robert Fulghum’s wonderful book, ‘All I Really Need To Know I learned In Kindergarten.’ This is one of the gems from it: “Every person...
by Jenny Dixon | Jul 2, 2021 | News
Some behaviour may look like procrastination but ends up being a great writing enhancer. Sometimes, it’s not just the general peripheries of life that intervene and stop us writers getting anywhere near a desk. Sometimes, it’s the little devil in the head that goes...
