From the Empress of Germany to Robert Bruce
Intermarriage between royal families of England and Scotland
Intermarriage between royal families of England and Scotland
In the last years of the Roman occupation, it seems Britain was still pagan, with druids cutting mistletoe and curing all kinds of ailments with frog spittle and duck feathers. Then a lad called Patrick […]
Miss Kirkwood and John Brown save
Cairndhu village flower show
This 1820 novel is a challenge and I will finish it in time. It’s not my style or genre, I suppose, and I’m going to let it stew for a while. I had laid out […]
– I have ten minutes to sell Best in Show to a literary agent but I’m not a salesman. I tried selling rock drills but when one of the clients started to talk rubbish I […]
Flower show, Gardening, Chrysanthemums I’ve chopped and changed the cover for Best in Show, the gardener’s tale about saving Cairndhu flower show but this is the final . The writing is fixed. I din’t know […]
I’ve proof read the latest Cairndhu novel,Best in Show, and straightened it up on the right hand side. It looked ragged justified only on the left side. I’ll give it another proof and it should […]
Ben Okri – I watched Ben Okri being interviewed – what a great experience. A story should be about life, not a genre. It should be political, military, ordinary and romantic as well as sad […]
Burns’ Night or Burns Nicht is past and I wonder how many heard anything beyond Mice and Tam O’ Shanter or knew that Burns had written one or two things that might just look twenty […]
The book I want to write before I die is about The Giant Within all of us. It’s a calm giant, easily restrained by social convention or inhibition or even lack of self esteem. This […]