Tuesday 18 July 2017

A Room to Relax - A Writer's Room

Our house is currently on the market. Last week a family came to look round and the little girl announced at once: "This is a boy's room".

Well, I'm not a boy but I invite you to have a look at a few of the objects adorning my room to see if you share her viewpoint. This is the room in which I do most of my writing. There are a few less antiques than last time, and a lot more yellow!

The Avengers Shelf - Mr Men meet Marvel!  A combination of two great franchises.
This shelf was made by my brother and has a secret compartment (currently empty, I'm afraid).
At the moment it is housing the books I have no intention of sharing!

Meet the Watcher Bears - Eight teddies dressed and equipped as the immortals
from my fantasy novels. These were clad as a gift from my youngest sister,

Growing up in Orkney no room is complete without a Jane Glue picture. We have one
in almost every room of the house. The Northern Lights were a source of magic and
mystery to me, and Dad was photographing them long before digital cameras were around.

My first piece of fan art! This is the family featured in "Beneath Black Clouds and White"
available here. This is the prequel to my first novel.

A cupboard of keepsakes

Without doubt one of my favourite books of all time! Here are D'Artagnan and
Athos (my ideal hero) - in Toby Mug form - from The Three Musketeers.

A pair of bejewelled tiger boxes - I have never seen any quite like this;
with their stands designed to look like coins and aggressive stance.
I'd love to know their provenance before I picked them up at an auction.

Inscription in a 1824 publication of Byron's conversations with Thomas Medwin.
I am left wishing my signature was as impressive as this one.

As close as I can afford to owning anything written by the man himself!
A facsimile of a letter from Byron to Hobhouse.

The Black Knight
This chap looks amazing when I turn the Tetris lamp on beside him!
This is a signed and framed engraving - also bought from the local auction!

My typewriter - still waiting for a new ribbon!

And a couple of books which stay on my desk. Great for dipping into for
inspiration, research and wit.

Every morning, from May through to August,
I am woken up by little rainbows from this.
This makes having to get up far more bearable.

A print of the Eynhallow Hoxa Tapestry. Eynhallow is an island in Orkney,
seeped in mystery and folklore. It sits in one of the most unpredictable and
perilous stretches of water in the world. The story of Thorodale was taught to us in
Primary School and has stuck with me ever since. This was a gift from another sister.

One of 500 prints of Lord Byron in Nottinghamshire. Not quite how I
imagined him to look, but a cute Boatswain and an insight into how
other people viewed the world and times of Byron.

My door signs.
V for Virginia, Team Snowman (which was the winning
partnership in our Table Football Competition two years ago - very cutthroat event!),
and a sign with my alter-ego that my brother made

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