Fi Phillips

This month's photo inspiration is an old photo that I own but I thought it might get your creative cogs turning. Ther are three women in the photo having tea in the garden. What is their relationship to each other? What do they think of each other? Whose garden is it? Whose dog is it? Why has the photograph been ripped into pieces? What does this inspire you to write?

I've recently finished a new murder mystery play called Thoroughly Murdered Millie . Set in the 1920s, rich young widow Millie Harper-Smythe shocks her family (and the staff) with her plans for the future. Her stepchildren will lose their home, William the butler has no choice but to emigrate and who knows what she has in mind for the gardener? Can anyone stop her? You can find this play over on the Murdering The Text website. Have a look .

After moving house over Christmas and the resulting jungle of boxes that had to be unpacked, I came across a mountain of photographs. Some are from recent years. Others are from my childhood. About half of them, however, are of my parents and generations before. I thought you might appreciate a little vintage inspiration.