Where was the Navy?
Is there a sea story?
Category: Vital Spark
More food for thought
I had three options for a story for Writers Magazine in which food played a major part. One was the last two men of the Arctic expedition wondering who would eat who to survive. It’s […]
Picture Mysteries
Yachts, Book Covers and mysteries – I sometimes wonder if I do things the wrong way round and I should take a book cover and write the story about that instead of finding a cover […]
Crime Scene Investigation
CSI, Crime scene investigation, Murder weekends, Train Journeys, – We were at this murder weekend at a hotel, the woman on the train said, and several of the people got drunk and became unreliable witnesses […]
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Why?
Someone asked what do I want to achieve with my writing, do I want to change the world? Not really, I want to take it on holiday.
Vital Spark
Yachts, Book Covers and mysteries – I sometimes wonder if I do things the wrong way round, if I should take a book cover and write the story about that instead of finding a cover […]
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 […]
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 […]
Invisible Man
Sometimes one becomes invisible to those around one and wonderrs how that experience has inspired writers.
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