by Clare Flynn | Apr 29, 2013
Well I’ve made it – with a few misadventures on the way – all of which have righted themselves (forgetting my adaptor – cause of major anxiety as its loss would put the blocks on my working – but they’ve found me one), forgetting my iphone lead (turns out it was in my...
by Clare Flynn | Apr 23, 2013
What a fantastic and moving exhibition is Life and Death in Pompei and Herculaneum at the British Museum. I’ve been to Pompei (but not to Herculaneum) and thought it would offer little new, but this proved to be an incredible insight into everyday life in the...
by Clare Flynn | Jan 25, 2013
Today I was in need of some inspiration and creative stimulus, so took myself off to the British Museum. I haven’t darkened its doors in years and wanted to see the Parthenon Marbles – I’m ashamed to say I haven’t visited since schooldays. First off they are very...
by Clare Flynn | Dec 5, 2012
I try to take myself off once a week on a date with myself – one of the useful tips I learned from reading The Artist’s Way. This week I went to The Wellcome Collection to see a wonderful exhibition on Death. It’s not a medical exhibition but a mad...
by Clare Flynn | Apr 16, 2012
I’ve just used something that actually happened to me in my novel Kurinji Flowers. About five years ago (2007), I went to India for the first time and was driven at night from the airport at Coimbatore in Tamil Nadu to my destination, a yoga retreat near...
by Clare Flynn | Apr 15, 2012
I often feel guilty when I’m reading. It feels like skiving off. Instead of being curled up with a book I should be DOING something – writing, making, working, clearing, cleaning, exercising. In contrast soaking up someone else’s words feels like a...
