About the author

 If you leave England via the Severn Bridge with its magical dragonfly wings, you will arrive in a place called Wales. This is a green and pleasant land filled with myths and legends. Here you will find King Arthur’s stone as well as castles with dungeons. There is also a lighthouse on an island with dark and mysterious caves. We have the most beautiful valleys and sandy beaches and so much more. A perfect place for adventures and where many of my stories are set.

     It is in this magical place that you will find me, roaming the countryside and wild cliffs of Gower, with my husband, a kind and unassuming man who is also very clever! Back at our home for waifs and strays, we have many rescused battery hens, hundreds of wild birds and other animals. I also work as a part-time nurse in a small but perfectly formed hospital, and often, in the quiet of an evening, I play the piano or my guitar. Welcome to my world.  

     

My writing

 After coming second in a Debut Novel Competition with my YA novel, I decided to promote myself as a writer. Becoming a blogger was totally out of my comfort zone but after three years and thousands of visitors to my site, I can easily say I'm enjoying the experience and your company.

      Since then, my second novel has been long listed and short listed, so fingers crossed for both novels! Also, my short story The Purple Poppy' about animals that went to war, was published by Accent Press in an anthology,Unforgotten. So you see, I have been quite busy writing as much as possible.

 

                                                          

Diary of a Gower Girl (The true story of my life growing up on Gower)

      I was just six years old when I went to live with Granny Gower in a little wooden hut beside a forest. 'It will only be for the summer,' my father said, but nine summers passed before I ran away. 

      Granny Gower was a witch of course! Oh, not your average witch with a hawk’s nose and clawed fingernails and she wasn’t an old woman with warts and wrinkled skin but there was something about her that told me she was a witch nevertheless and not to be trusted.    

     I began to keep a diary of all the strange things granny did in fear that one day she would turn me into a frog and my father would never find me again. And so I became a writer and detective at the tender age of six. 

     As the years passed, I came to love Granny Gower despite her weird ways. She taught me many things that I would never have learned at school. One of the greatest gifts I took with me when I untangled myself from her spell, was the gift of vision, the power of observation and a love of nature. This is a quote by Lord Byron, which for me, sums up my time with Granny Gower.

 

There is pleasure in the pathless woods, there is rapture in the lonely shore, there is society where none intrudes, by the deep sea, and music in its roar; I love not Man the less, but Nature more. 

 

 Coming soon...Diary of a Gower Girl

 

Come with me on a journey through Gower, one of the most beautiful places on earth!

 

The photography is all my own work. 

 

 

  • I love writing, art, photography, reading, playing my guitar and piano and spending time with my kind and unassuming husband in our menagerie. I am often lazy but more often busy.

    Come along then let's read some tattle tales......

Comments

13.11.2021 16:55

Lanre

A...mazing!

15.03.2021 19:58

SHARON ANN HANFORD

Jill, you are amazing. I will share my personal photos and what I've been up to with you! I look forward to reading all that you share here...Sharon Ann Hanford X X X X X

28.09.2020 20:25

Amy

I was lost in your world Jill. Keep em comin. Amy x

28.09.2020 12:34

AnnieM

So you Jilly, love your outlook on life. Looking forward to reading your stories about the wonderful Gower x

10.01.2020 22:27

Tracy N Rees

Jill, so beautifully written!
I am looking forward to reading your quaint, Gower tales, blogs and weird and wonderful insights of your world.
Your new colleague and friend... TR

16.06.2019 17:16

Dave

Hi Jill

Looking forward to Diary of a Gower girl. Beautiful blog site.

Best wishes Dave and Isabel

23.08.2017 12:27

Rafidah Al-zeer

Hi Jill
My name is Raf
We met briefly at Williwbrook farm a few weeks ago . Would love to get in touch with you

28.08.2017 13:43

Jill

Hi Raf, it's so good to hear from you. You can e-mail me at moon-river@live.co.uk ... if a problem message me here again and I will get back to you xx

13.08.2014 17:55

Cheryl Culver

You have touched a chord. My sister and I have dogs which text one another most evenings. The phone tries to correct 'dog talk' with some amazing results. Very funny.
www.cherylculverpaintings.co.uk

03.08.2014 11:10

Amy

I really like the new sites decor Jill. The pale blue is really pretty and like a summers day sky.

03.04.2014 00:46

Beverley

I am more homesick now than ever ...x

12.03.2014 20:14

Fiona Riley

Jill, just caught up on a few of your stories, hilarious and touching - love them all. Keep going. (Can't get it on my mobile though)

25.02.2014 18:15

James

Your a really good lady

25.02.2014 18:41

Jill

Thank you James, I just write what I see at our home for waifs and strays. Hope you keep in touch. More stories to come. Kind regards, Jill

07.02.2014 12:03

jill

Thank you everyone, for your kind comments....I will do my best to keep up the good work with the help of my kind and unassuming husband, who is very clever!