Susan Jones writes romantic drama with a touch of humour, and historical sagas as Lydia King. She lives in North Warwickshire, and loves walking through the beautiful woodlands where she lives, and gardening and reading are her pastimes.

Category: Happiness

  • From the oxford dictionary The universe seen as a well-ordered whole. ‘he sat staring deep into the void, reminding himself of man’s place in the cosmos’  A system of thought. ‘the new gender-free intellectual cosmos’ An ornamental plant of the daisy family, which bears single dahlia-like flowers and is native to Mexico and warm regions…

  • In the shops this weekend. Hope you enjoy the story if you get chance to find one. This is the new kindle cover and actual book cover for A Factory Affair. This is the kindle one. And there’s the paperback one, but details are on the spine with the finished one of course. This should…

  • My latest kindle read, A Factory Affair, will be available in paperback later this year. A story set in 1970’s Warwickshire, with a Hat Factory at the centre of the story. The paperback will have a different cover, but this   I’ve chosen for now with the hearts on the front. Enjoy the story if you’re…

  • Here’s our wedding photo from 2008. The reason I’m putting this here is because when I updated Facebook to put that I’m married, it immediately assumed I meant we’d got married on that day. So it doesn’t know much does it? I’m 12,000 words into the next book in the Redington/Country Matters series. This one’s…

  • Look what just landed on the doormat. How lovely and now I’m off to the garden with a cuppa and a ham and mustard cob to read through. I’ve started a new job this week, and getting into the swing of it. The people are friendly and the hours still give me time to go…

  • Special people – happy times

  • Hello, friendly bloggers, hope your weekend is going well. I’m catching up with writing and doing some knitting – making a tea cosy from some scraps of wool. Reason being, I’ve just finished reading this book. It’s one my sister, lent to our mom, and she lent it to me. We all like knitting, so…

  • Hello to all my lovely followers, hope you’re all well. Remember I was going for the granny grey look. Well sadly she’s moved away, and Mrs Brown is back in town. Our lovely daughter paid a visit today, and she’s now selling make up. That’s how I come to have blended brown eye shadows, ladylike…

  • For me, laughing is important. It uses up more calories than if you don’t laugh, and makes you feel a lot better for having had a good laugh. Some things will always be funny, no matter how long ago they happened, or if you’re a lot older and wiser than you were at the time…

  • We had a lovely time at Blenheim Palace yesterday. It’s well worth a visit if you haven’t been there before, and we learned a lot from the knowledgeable tour guide. Then we had a wander around the garden. A couple of helicopters were circling the Palace, then landed in the garden. A trio emerged and…