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Questionable opinions and pointless ramblings
This isn't so much a blog as a loose assembly of things that occured, failed to occur, or just occurred to me. Feel free to disagree with my opinions and question my facts - I make no claims to wisdom or erudition. Well, actually I lay claim to both, right up until - and usually after - I'm proved wrong.
Those looking for meaning, reason or enlightenment would be well advised to try Immanuel Kant, Thomas Paine or Gilbert O'Sullivan.
Changing History
The trouble with research is that you just don't know what you don't know.
A few years ago I wrote a short story called...
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Being Different
Left to right: Stephanie Hutton, Debbie Voisey, Sarah Akhtar, Adam Boustead, Jason Smith and Richard Branson in a Simon Cowell outfit.
The...
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Staffordshire Six
The 6x6 Reading Café is an institution invented by two rather splendid author friends, Misha Herwin and Jan Edwards. It's...
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As one door opens...
Q: When is a door not a door?
A: When it's bleeding locked!
Many things in life baffle me, but somewhere at the top of the...
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Arse About Face
I've been selecting stories from It Never Was Worthwhile to include in Discollection and one of them caught my eye. It's called...
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Discollection
My rather excellent publisher, Penkhull Press has recently launched a new series, to be called Penkhull Slims. They're complete...
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Channeling Jake
Christmas approaches, and with it a tradition of Renegade Writers. Renegades is the writers' group who make my Wednesday evenings...
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Prayer for the Departed
"We waved, we shouted, we cheered, and all their brave boots rasped on the cobbles. We heard their songs and smiled, though where...
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Wood and String
Continuing the theme of illustrating the aircraft of The Larks, this is one I recently completed of the F.E.2b used by Andy and Cubby...
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Leominster Beckons
If you find yourself near Leominster tomorrow (30th May) then you could do a lot worse than spend some time around the 2016 festival...
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