105 posts, April 2020 to August 2024.
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This is a short one, just to commemorate crashing through the 100,000 word barrier. At the start I was aiming for that to be the total for the new novel but it is not quite finished. Trouble Cross is my longest so far at 120,000 but even that has been reduced now with the Pratt,…
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said Zebedee, as he closed down The Magic Roundabout for the night, but for myself Thursday night was more like The Tragic Gadabout.
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Well, am I red faced or what? My Wacky facts are worse than I thought. After my previous post I could not stop myself having a look to check my recollection and how wrong was I? The correct list of cars and drivers was:
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No. Not a weekend celebrating my book Rewind – although don’t let that stop you having a look with an option to buy. No, this weekend was about nostalgia. A long Easter bank holiday in a bubble for one and no eggs anywhere in sight. What else to do but watch the gogglebox. In…
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We all know the quote and we all know the film. I wish we didn’t need roads around our way though because then I wouldn’t be wide awake at 3 am writing this.
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The X Files are alive and well and popping up in Surrey. Last night I could not sleep – a not infrequent occurrence and I am due a night at a sleep clinic soon – so I got back up and wrote my previous blog ‘Football? It’s a sunny new game!’, only to have my socks blown off when…
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“Football? It’s a funny old game!” Who first coined that expression? In my mind this statement is synonymous with Jimmy Greaves back when I was a kid watching ‘Saint and Greavsie’. It’s not a funny old game anymore. It’s a bloody frustrating game.
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Well, I have played my part in Vaccination Part 1. It was all very slick really. I was in and out in less than 5 minutes and I even got a nice comment on my mask – it was the Star Wars one today “A long time ago … we did not have to wear masks!” It was not even Jabba in the Hut…
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Well, I have played my part in Vaccination Part 1. It was all very slick really. I was in and out in less than 5 minutes and I even got a nice comment on my mask – it was the Star Wars one today “A long time ago … we did not have to wear masks!” It was not even Jabba in the Hut…
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It was 14th December 2012 and at last my novels were available to the general public and no longer hiding away in a drawer. Alas not in bookshops but as self published kindle versions. I remember asking the guy who published them for me – how do I sell them? The answer was via…
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Have you ever wondered how words get added to the dictionary? Who decides to add them and when? These questions briefly came to mind during ‘Pointless’ in a round on words added to the dictonary in 2019. I think it was the Oxford English Dictionary but don’t quote me on that bit.
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Some say that life imitates art but I have just seen a film when art not only imitated but predicted real life. It was called Maze Runner: The Death Cure – the third and final film of a trilogy. Now for me Maze Runner has been one of those films that I have watched because it…
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