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2025-4: Hoppy release day!

Since my last blog the most exciting news has been the official release of ROBBIT – the Job-Hopping Frog into the READER-VERSE! YAY! Katrin and I are very pleased with how it turned out and really hope you enjoy reading … Continue reading →

2025-3: So where are your mountains?

When Bob Dylan was awarded the 2016 Nobel Prize for Literature some people were surprised. Some were offended. Leonard Cohen wasn’t one of them. When asked about it his answer was: “To me [the award] is like pinning a medal … Continue reading →

2025-2: From little things …

To see a World in a Grain of SandAnd a Heaven in a Wild Flower Hold Infinity in the palm of your hand And Eternity in an hour(Auguries of Innocence – William Blake) This blog is dedicated to some of the small … Continue reading →

2025-1: Another year swoops in!

First blog of a new year and it’s shaping up to be quite an exciting and interesting one. (The year that is, not the blog. Sorry. Didn’t mean to get your hopes up.) In a few weeks on February 1st … Continue reading →

2024 Week 52: We’re going to the end of the line …

Well, way back at the beginning of the year when I said that my goal for 2024 was to blog every single week for 52 weeks, a number of people laughed, sniggered and poo-hooed the notion, claiming that I was … Continue reading →

2024 Week 51: A few creatures WERE stirring …

While we were away having a beach holiday (see previous blog) we had a drain put in at the side of the house to catch excess water. When we arrived home we discovered that as well as water, it had … Continue reading →

2024 Week 50: At the Beach …

“At the beach – time you enjoyed wasting, is not wasted.” -T. S. Eliot Some pictures …. And a beach poem … Maggie and Millie and Molly and May E. E. Cummings maggie and milly and molly and maywent down … Continue reading →

2024 Week 49: All the world’s a stage.

The last two books I’ve read – a memoir and a biography – have centered around music and musicians. Both included lots of stories about concerts by various bands and artists. It got me thinking about my own live concert … Continue reading →

2024 Week 48: Georgia on my mind.

No, not that Georgia. Not Ray Charles’ Georgia. I mean Eastern European Georgia. The Georgia whose capital city is Tbilisi and whose population is around 4 million. This one. This particular Georgia is on my mind because I just received … Continue reading →

2024 Week 47: The return of the Return of the Dugongs!

Recently the first book in the Ishmael series, Don’t Call Me Ishmael, was reprinted (for the 27th time!) and given a slightly updated new cover. Unfortunately though, the second and third books in the series have been out of print … Continue reading →