February blog party: call for submissions

This months' UK Herbarium blog party is hosted by Danielle at The Teacup Chronicles .

Danielle says "The theme of February’s UK Herbarium blog party, then, is “Gems from the Herbal Library” – an opportunity to share your most beloved herb books with one another. Tell us about what books you just can’t live without; the ones you could read cover to cover; those you take into the field with you; the ones with all your favorite recipes or those that you always go to first when you need information. In short, please share with us your favorite and most trusted books, and why you love them so!"

Books are something I have always loved and I can easily spent dreamy hours just re-arranging them, let alone reading them! This is also a timely posting as my apprentices have asked for booklists from me and I need to sort out my lists to include some of the latest publications. Now I just need to make time to do it all!

My first award and other excitement!

Debs Cook, who writes Herbaholic's Herbarium kindly awarded me the Uber Amazing award last week, which was a wonderful surprise. I love knowing that other people read my blog and enjoy sharing the information and experiences I post about.

The rules of this award are:-

* Put the award logo on your blog or post (right click on award, save as)
* Nominate at least 1 blog that you consider to be Uber Amazing!
* Let them know that they have received this Uber Amazing award by commenting on their blog
* Share the love and link to this post and to the person you received your award from.

I'm going to nominate Tammy from The Witchen Kitchen Beginner Herbal for inspiring me to try making herbal products I hadn't thought of before and Cathy from Growing Curious who isn't afraid to mix emotions with her developing knowledge of the growing world.

I have another piece of exciting news I wanted to share. My first book of poetry was published by Romance Divine on Friday 8 November. It's very rare for poems to find a publisher, so I'm grateful to Greg Causey for giving me the opportunity to share my poetry more widely.

The book is available as an ebook, a paperback and an audio CD featuring my dulcet tones(!) reading and singing plus my daughter, Kathryn, playing a couple of my tunes on her flute. You can find it on http://www.romancedivine.com/AtHomeAndAway.html if you're interested in purchasing a copy. The paperback is also available on Amazon.com

Email me at sarah@headology.co.uk if you're interested in details of my other published books, which include an Arthurian Romance, an Iron Age romance and a book of short stories from the dark side!