A hot potato
A friend I met in Africa who had been in Zimbabwe when it was a British colony. When their little settlement was visited by the British Commissioner, who exemplified the ideas and manners of good […]
A friend I met in Africa who had been in Zimbabwe when it was a British colony. When their little settlement was visited by the British Commissioner, who exemplified the ideas and manners of good […]
Vital Spark is published and novel number six is with the publishers and coming soon. Number six is a kind of follow up from Welcome to Oakhaven but it’s not Miss Read or Maeve Binchy. […]
Ice creamed As boys, my friend and I were staring through the big window of the local ice cream parlor. The owner was making a batch of ice cream and a wee boy with a […]
HOW A VITAL SPARK WAS LIT People ask what I write about and I try to tell them but it’s easier if I use a book like Vital Spark to explain it’s not what that […]
We were watching one of the mid week football games in a hotel pub. There were three reps sitting to one side and at half time they started to talk about the food. One said […]
Daft youngsters
An American colleague of mine was sent o look at a site in Ireland called O’Malley’s . He was close but decided to stop the car and ask an old chap leading a donkey if […]
No man can tether time nor tide and it’s Burns time again and would some power the giftie gie us to see ourselves as others see us. First there is his comment about politicians – […]
I only wrote about the Leprechaun to show how two bits of legend triggered a story line but it has nagged me since, so I might as well follow up. Once the general story line […]
All this high wind reminds me of 1968/9 when we had a bad storm in Glasgow with chimneys and any loose tiles and bits getting blown down. I had a friend, a small thin chap, […]