Lifestyle
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Although Patricia can (and does) tackle heavyweight issues, there’s always room in her life for a bit of frivolity.
This section covers topics that are a little less earnest, from charity balls to beeping cars – anything, in short, that doesn’t come under the other categories.
However superficial the subject, Patricia takes this kind of writing just as seriously as more sober topics and will deliver well-researched copy, written to the same standard as her other work.
Express yourself
With our liberal use of Americanisms, colloquialisms, abbreviations, acronyms and text-speak, the English language has changed enormously in the last 100 years. But is this evolution for better or worse, wonders Patricia Carswell.
Survival strategies for scatty writers
So immersed in your work you forget to feed your family? Patricia Carswell looks of ways of staying in the real world without losing your creative spark.
A humble abode
In 2010, television presenter Kate Humble and her husband, Ludo, took over a council-owned farm in rural Monmouthshire and launched Humble by Nature - a working farm offering rural skills courses run by local experts (www.humblebynature.com)
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