Love in Old Age: My Year in the Wight House (Love in Old Age: A Year On the Isle of Wight)

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It will turn the courtyard into another room,' she explained, 'and while I am in the kitchen cooking or getting drinks, I will be able hear all the chat outside, which I can't at the moment. In the late 1960s, they both had films made of early novels: her Georgy Girl; his Here We Go Round the Mulberry Bush. We opened all the doors and windows, and the big sliding doors in the kitchen which led out into the courtyard.

I also do a football column in the New Statesman, a column about love in old age for Saga magazine and also a column in Cumbria Life. I would meet them off the hovercraft, take them briefly to our house, where they could have showers and a drink, then take them all for a slap-up meal at The Duck restaurant, just five minutes away. ONE of the things about living with a new person is that you suddenly become aware that your self-image is not always how the other person sees you. There are three categories for authors to submit their free entries to: Fiction, Non-Fiction and Children's books.The Isle of Wight will be only the second region in the whole of the UK with its own regional book awards.

I began the Lake District Book Awards 38 years ago - and they are still going strong, with sponsors queuing up. I am now working on ‘Letters To Margaret’, involving letters to my wife Margaret telling her what has happened to the world, to me, to my family, and to my tortoise since she scarpered off in 2016. One of the joys of last year's awards was seeing such a wide variety of entries, written by all ages and in all different formats. And one of the many perks of being a journalist is getting into places you wouldn't otherwise, like up the backstairs of Kenwood. I had rows like this with my wife, especially in the early days; and I am sure Claire had them with her past boyfriends.

It was so hot at midday and I drank so much at lunchtime that we both got into the habit of having a siesta every afternoon. We have gone back to London more often than we had planned, to check on our respective houses, both of which have a tenant in them. There was a very healthy number of self-published books that held their own against other titles which had the support of bigger publishers.