I feel so excited! Some of my new songs are now available for license through Paul McCartney's company in New York!
Have a look in the News section.

The sun is out, Spring is here and my head is buzzing with new ideas.
Driving home looking at the snowdrops lining the lanes, and two days ago there was a deer in the garden!! Well it's not exactly a garden as such but yes, a doe a deer a female deer, and it stayed for ages nuzzling into the grass, there must be moss down there.

I have three new songs on the go and it's Mother's Day week and so I'm singing bits and pieces into my phone in between wrapping tulips and making planted pots. The flowers look and smell amazing and the colours are so vivid I must take a picture and show you what I mean. We have orchids that are purple/pink and they really glow and violet plants so deep. It's a beautiful place to work. It drives me crazy sometimes but I am appreciative today. My hands look a mess but it's worth it to be working and touching and smelling such beautiful natural things. Ok I'll be back with some photos...

It's been busy over the Valentines period in the flower shop. None of us have had much sleep for a week and my dreams have all been about roses. I woke up today feeling I'd been making bouquets all night and now I've got the day off I don't know what to do with myself. It's like I've been going at full speed and then the brakes went on.

It's been beautiful blue skies all week, although very cold but today it's snowing and grey. I'm going for a drive to Blackpool so I'll sing in the car and work out a missing line for my new song. It's called 'Home Sweet Home' The melody has a country feeling about it. I can't wait to record the demo!!

Isn't it wonderful to feel well?!
Funny how it sometimes takes being ill before we notice that. I had food poisoning this week but today I feel 100% better! Yip-ee!! I'd skip if I had the energy.
I'm now wearing thermals on top of my thermals and eating pies!!
Come on Spring time...show yourself.... soon.

My mission before the flower shop gets busy with St.Valentine's Day preparation is to sketch out an idea I have for the painting to go with 'Day To Remember' (one of the new songs) it'll have poppies bleeding into the ground with the sun coming up in the background. One day the wars will stop. One day the pain will end.

On a happier note my sisters horse is coming to live on the hill and so Duchess will be alone no more. I love the smell of horses. Even their poo smells lovely. I don't care what anyone thinks... it does. No other animals poo smells ok... they must be creatures of the magical realm. I love them, I love their breath, their sound, their spirit and their companionship. The first song I ever wrote was about a pony...Carmen. Happy days.

A very wonderful thing happened, I saw my Grandma.
She grew wings three years ago but I saw her peeping at us the way she always did as we drove away.
Life is fascinating, emotional, tragic and beautiful.
Will we ever truly understand it?

"See the clouds come. Come cover me..."

"Love like life never dies. You are my rock, my rock in shifting sands..."

"You are the break in my routine, you are my favourite daydream..."

"I'm living in another world..."

"I feel sure the day will come when you and I will be as one..."

"You never know when your life might change..."

"Always finds a smile for the sunshine in her life..."

"I want to tell you how I feel and express it..."

"All I want is for you to always stay here, close to me..."

Unlike 'Sunlight On My Soul' 'That Girl' doesn't have a story running through it but each song has a feeling and as I watched the candle burn and listened to each song the images left behind inside my eyelids looked nice enough to paint and so I did and here they are...

"She draws a circle, strikes a match. Paper curling, burning, turning to ash..."

It blew right through me, a wave of love rushed over and under.....



Freed by the knowledge her fears cannot harm her she thanks them for their protection and lets them go.
Her world is transformed. Yesterdays drain away into the earth, feeding the soil. Tomorrows fly free on the breeze, like seeds, wishes and dreams, with love. Enjoying the present, she takes a deep breath of here and now and dances with the sunlight.

Welcome and step into the rainbow.....




A recurring nightmare strikes her down and fears flood in. She's on the run and each leap forward brings more dangers.
A mystical Goddess beckons her to safety but it's short lived. She runs through the illusions, exhausted she cries out for help.

Thinking of you I feel warm inside, you're my favourite view, I can't hide my smile I feel golden.....




There was no reason to hold back, push forward or resist. She accepted where she was and looked to the horizon.
The road became clearer and clearer.
"Take this one step right here and now, take this one step right here and now, take this one step..."

We can have this, hold this, love this, keep it together. We'll enjoy it, cherish, feel this love forever.....




She found the center of the hurricane, felt the power of the waterfall and walked across the fire.
Now sat on the cool green center of the see-saw, in the middle of the spectrum, nourished by nature her heart glowed with belief.

Washing my feet in the sea.....



"Seashore do you ache when the tide pulls away? Moon do you cry at the coming of the day?
Earth do you worry when the sun says good night?"
With every meeting there is a parting. It is all right.

The trees are silent, there is no breeze.....



She looked outside for what was missing. What was missing she could not find.
She tried to fill the hole inside her but what she wanted was deep inside.

Magic potions. East. West. Change the rhythm. Self. Deep, well hidden.....



She found a friend who was her enemy and an enemy who became her teacher and a teacher who became her pupil and a pupil who was her friend.

If I could open my head I'd let my spirit go free.....



"The birds move me but I cannot fly. I watch the lambs but not one skips to me.
I hear the bells but they do not call me home.
I must go now." she said and she left.

Wash away the ashes.....



Reflection in the mirror. Reflection in water, in sister, brother, mother, lover.
"Who am I? All these pieces of me from yesterday.
Cry away! Die away! Wash away! Go!"
She exploded like a volcano and everyone left.
Then, she saw the rainbow.

He tries to drown out the traffic.....



Down the garden path to the bright lights...she'd dreamed of this.
But where was the magic? Hidden in smoke? Where was the melody? Lost in traffic.
This couldn't be right.
She went home.

The way is clear.....



There is something in here wanting to be out there.
Feeling like a shoot pushing up through the soil with more and more soil the more she pushed through.
She took a deep breath and opened the door.