Natasha Sheldon

Rather quiet of late but things have been busy since the 11th November! Marcus William was born at 12.31pm. As you can imagine, he's been taking up most of my time. So begins the challenge of juggling motherhood with writing.

Not as impossible as it seems if you have a good baby and are willing to sacrifice even more sleep! I managed to write 30 articles for Suite101 by the end of November. Most were before Marcus's birth but I managed to complete 12 after giving myself a week off to recover from the trauma of the C section.

This helped to make me feel 'more myself' after leaving hospital feeling like I'd been run over by a truck. It was also good writing discipline and has made me realise how much more time can be salvaged from an already busy day.

That challenge completed successfully I'm taking some time off now to spend soley with my son.  But I'm already thinking ahead to the beginning of not only a new year but a new decade and what I want to achieve-as a mother but also as a writer.

Check out my Facebook page for more details (and pictures) of Marcus

Welcome to my blog! Now I finally have the time, hope to keep this relatively up to date with any news about forthcoming projects and new work.

At the moment I'm waiting for the birth of my first baby but I'm keeping busy, which involves some heavy front loading of suite101 articles to tide me over the inital baby moon period. Recent articles look at Etruscan history, art and archaeology and the archaeology of Hadrian's Wall

In the past,  I've submitted quite a few articles based on archaeological sites I've visited to Suite. If you are interested in Middle Eastern Archaeology and in particlular anything Roman related, look out for my latest pieces on the city of Palmyra. The articles (plus some of my pictures) will be looking at what makes Palmyra such a special and inspiring place to visit. It may look like a Roman city but a closer look at the archaeology shows its residents remained proudly semitic.

And if the baby doesn't arrive first, I'm hoping to start a new series of articles on classical myths and the potential inspiration behind them.

Finally, I'm hoping to be selling my Roman pamphlets directly from the website very soon. So watch this space.