Pit ponies
On Monday I gave a talk to Probus about the pit ponies I met in the mine. While I was waiting to go on a management training course, BSc and all, an old manager sent […]
On Monday I gave a talk to Probus about the pit ponies I met in the mine. While I was waiting to go on a management training course, BSc and all, an old manager sent […]
Of course, things didn’t go as planned with the move but I am now back on line It’s six years since I was last on a flight and things are a wee bit different but […]
My friend has a cat. He also takes medication which gets him up in the middle of the night. Getting up isn’t a problem but there are other side effects that bother him. When he […]
Let me go back to the wee green men, the Leprechauns, and do a little more on their story. To avoid it becoming an Egyptian Corry, I’d gone to the end where they were all […]
About writing Drover Ever since I read Kidnapped, I’d always wanted to write a story set among the glens and bens of the Scottish Highlands but the trigger came from a most unlikely source – […]
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 […]