Retreaded, not retired
Because I’ve turned eighty, people assume I’m retired. Nothing could be further from the truth – I’m in the middle of a career I started when I was sixty six. I may have stopped scraping […]
Because I’ve turned eighty, people assume I’m retired. Nothing could be further from the truth – I’m in the middle of a career I started when I was sixty six. I may have stopped scraping […]
I don’t know if you’ve joined us creakeys who’ve been put on half an Aspirin to keep your blood from turning to treacle, or for joints that have lost their treacle, or just to help […]
With Leprechaun I’ve tried to tell how I get story ideas but sometimes it’s just a follow on from something before. The Colonel’s Ducks at Oakhaven is the sequel to Welcome to Oakhaven. I’d given […]
should have my head down writing Flower Show but I got rather excited last night . I could have watched Wimbledon but by one of those strange connections, I turned to Lost Cities of the […]
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 […]
I don’t know about you but I feel a book needs to have a story line, something that runs through it and ties the incidents together. It was easy with the last two books, Vital […]
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 – […]