America’s Cup
We were talking of the America’s Cup the other day and saying I had written quite a bit about the South African entry in the early two thousands reminded me that Royal Cape Yacht Club […]
Month: November 2015
Don’t know
I was at a funeral this week and after it I had a long conversation about ghosts and life after death and I feel like the chap who was asked if he could play the […]
Remembrance Day
I’ve told people how I came to learn of the Five Shilling Rebellion and write both King or Kaiser and Shadows in the Veldt but I want to continue until the creation of the Cape […]
Books / Character Development / King or Kaiser / Shadows in the Veldt / Sullatober Dalton / Uncategorized
Five Shilling Rebellion
One of the oddities of the story of the Five Shilling Rebellion in South Africa at the start of WW1 is that even many Afrikaners are unaware of that part of their history. I was […]
Shadows in the Veldt
Shadows in the Veld is the seventh book to be published and follows on from King or Kaiser and the story of how the South Africans helped the Royal Navy in 1914at the start of […]
Caledonian Canal
The Caledonian Canal While we were in Aberdeen, the Stonehaven Yacht Club organised the a trip down the Caledonian Canal in the Sail Training yacht Winston Churchill. I was sea sick for a day and […]
Bernard Cornwell and Sailing
I had the cheek to email Bernard Cromwell yesterday and discovered they are reissuing the Last Kingdom volume with a front that coincides with the TV programme. I’d rather have the book. I actually preferred […]
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5 years
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