Welcome to my blog - a new venture for me. I wanted to start one so that I can tell my readers any news of what is going on in my professional life. At the moment I am involved in writing a series of books called The Cresswell Inheritance. It is about a West Country estate in the first 50 years of the last century and details the changes in the lives of the Cresswell family, their servants and the estate workers. The estate is a microcosm of the social changes occurring in England at that time. It is a period which has always fascinated me for, with the First World War, everything changed and was never to be the same again. Women in particular found their lives turned upside down and their demands for more I]independence could not be ignored. Book One - The Broken Gate and Book Two - The Heart's Citadel are published. There has been a long delay for the third book - The Breached Wall. It is now finished and is in production and will be out in November 07. I have to apologise for this delay but I have been unwell and not inclined to write. But all is now resolved and my old enthusiasm and love of writing has returned. All I can do is apologise and thank the many readers who wrote to me asking when it would be available. There are distinct advantages to being poorly, once recovered one looks at life in a different way, it underlines how precious normality is. So, here we are, my first contribution.