I took a course at City Lit in 2021 on Creative Non-Fiction which inspired me to write a number of short essays and non-fiction pieces, a new area of writing for me.

One of these pieces On the Norber Erratics was published later in the year as part of the City Lit Between the Lines anthology: https://www.citylit.ac.uk/between-the-lines

In this short essay I explored some of the feelings I’d had during the lockdowns of the previous year. The pressure we all felt with the ‘new normal’ and all those rules and regulations that governed our lives for a period of time.

Our trip to see the Norber Erratics, a group of greywhacke boulders in Yorkshire, was our first trip outside London in six months. I still remember the freedom we felt on that trip, and the sense of timelessness, as we pondered the fact that these boulders have sat there for 12,000 years.