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‘Rachel effortlessly brings her characters to life, and you feel as if you’ve always known them. Like old friends, they make you laugh out loud one minute then break your heart the next’
Nick Ashton, illustrator
Oops, I did it again!
I’m a runner-up in the comedy Women in Print flash fiction prize for the second time with my tale of an ecclesiastical faux pas.
CWIP Top Flasher!
My story of doomed love and feline judgement made the final five in the Comedy Women In Print Flash Fiction Prize.
A testing time
As part of Breast Cancer Awareness Month I shared the story of my BRCA2 diagnosis with NHS South East Genomics and explained how the charity BRCA Kent opened up a support network to get me through my preventative surgeries.
I will previve!
Getting a diagnosis of the gene BRCA2 was just the beginning of my road to cancer prevention. I spoke to BBC Radio Kent about the emotional journey I undertook and the difficult choices I made to become a cancer previvor.
Present tense
When it’s cold and wet. When no one is in the mood for a birthday, or a party, and the last thing anyone wants to do is fork out for a present for some wastrel who had the bare-faced cheek to be born in the wrong month.
Go with the flow
My salty sea poem, ‘The Tale of Nelly and Kane - a Shanterick’, illustrated by Matilda Flood from the Kent Illustration Network, is currently on display as part of the River Monsters exhibition at the first Medway River Lit festival. Anchors away!
Don’t panic!
‘Soaked to the skin with rain, smelling like the catch of the day and with my hair stuck to my face with vomit, I started crawling on all fours towards A&E.’ Apparently panic attacks are not the way to impress on a first date. Who knew?
Suncream and Sensibility
‘I can hardly imagine Elizabeth Bennet walking round in a g-string. If she had, it certainly wouldn’t have taken her 61 chapters to bag Mr Darcy.’ Taking my cues from Jane Austen, I throw some shade on my own skin cancer scare in Metro.
You couldn’t make this up
Get your ears round the hilarious podcast We’ve Got No Idea What We’re Gonna Say, where I talk utter nonsense with the virile improv legends that are Ben Simmons and Nick Murphy. Contains unnecessarily juvenile toilet humour. Sorry.
Just Checking
With humble deference to my comedy writing heroes, who I was lucky enough to have met, I’ve written a sitcom called Just Checking, about my experiences of OCD, as part of the BBC’s Galton & Simpson Bursary. Watch this space…
Frankly my dear
My acrylic painting of Boris Karloff as Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein’s Monster has been exhibited at The Halpern Gallery. For info about the gallery’s current and future exhibitions, click on the link below for their web page.
Radio gaga
Want to hear me sounding unexpectedly refined on the wireless? Then here I am guesting on The Show That Goes Like This. I’d suggest starting 40 minutes in, as I got stuck at the Dartford Crossing on my way to the studio and was late!