Shauna Bickley

Posted on Sunday 24th January 2021 by Shauna Bickley

…and here we are hurtling towards the end of January. For so far, 2021 is looking a lot like 2020 which started me thinking about how we measure time in...

Posted on Thursday 24th December 2020 by Shauna Bickley

The first Christmas my husband and I spent together was also my first Christmas away from my family. We were living in a different country with very different weather and...

Posted on Monday 21st December 2020 by Shauna Bickley

I generally don’t post reviews on this blog, but I’ve just finished reading Jane Harper’s latest book The Survivors and as I added it to my reading journal I noticed...

Posted on Sunday 29th November 2020 by Shauna Bickley

Early in the year, I saw a blog post about keeping a reading journal. I’ve always been an avid reader but I’d never thought about a reading journal and decided...

Posted on Monday 31st August 2020 by Shauna Bickley

I’m thrilled to announce my latest book, Writing the Stars in London, is now live and ready to read. To celebrate the release of the new book I decided to...

Posted on Saturday 29th August 2020 by Shauna Bickley

If you’ve read the previous post then you’ll know that our visit to Koblenz and the Rhine was part of our rail trip. While we had an amazing time on...

Posted on Saturday 29th August 2020 by Shauna Bickley

Our time in Europe was sadly coming to an end, but in planning our trip we decided to finish with a final fun tour of places old and new to...

Posted on Sunday 23rd August 2020 by Shauna Bickley

With travel from New Zealand off the agenda for the foreseeable future, writing these posts and sorting through my photos has brought back some wonderful memories of people and places...

Posted on Tuesday 11th August 2020 by Shauna Bickley

After our travels around Cyprus and parts of Italy, we spent just over a month visiting family and friends and seeing places old and new around England. One of my...

Posted on Sunday 19th July 2020 by Shauna Bickley

Coming back from a wonderful trip around Italy you’d think it would be almost impossible to find something else quite as exciting, but hang on just a minute, after Italy...