David Hadley's Blog, page 54
February 5, 2016
The 24-Hour Emergency Amusing Anecdote Service
Slicedwhite Filingcabinet is probably best known these days as the UK’s leading Interesting Person. For some years, he has been a frequent guest on those TV show that have regular guests, mainly as a way of deflecting attention away from the inanities of the programme’s host(s). Of course, these guest slots are usually filled with the usual celebrities with a product to flog in one way or another. Occasionally, though, there is a gap in the guest list that needs to be filled – often at short...
February 3, 2016
The Mist of Not Knowing
Sometimes all of this shimmers on the edge of being a world. It emerges out of the mists of my existence edge-on. As though all I need to do is, somehow, turn it towards me and I will have a world again.
There is no time here. There is no space.
All I have is this white mist that surrounds me like… like a fog. There is no direction, no way to move. I can move my body, but the mist doesn’t alter or change. I can’t tell if I am walking somewhere, or just moving in place. I can turn and turn aga...
February 2, 2016
Author Chat – Michael Brookes – Kath Middleton – Books
Hi Michael. You have a new book out – The Church of Virtual Saints. You seem to be drawn to religious and metaphysical subjects. What are your inspirations?
I’m drawn by the great mysteries in life – why do we exist? How did we come to be? What makes us who we are? Such questions have no simple answers, but the journey in exploring them is never wasted. By nature I appreciate the process of science in exploring how things are, although it is a little lacking in the why. Although I’m not a rel...
February 1, 2016
New at ABCtales: A Notorious Historical Dandy
Splendiferous Haberdashery was uncountably the 18th Century’s finest dandy. Famed for having a different bespoke handkerchief for every hour of the day, he was the first person in London to wear underpants. There were also – unconfirmed – rumours of him having a bath nearly every fortnight. Hence, Haberdashery was a notorious figure in the London society of the time.
These days of course he is mostly known for being the first person to wear a bobble hat at the opera. Back then, Haberdashery w...
January 29, 2016
The UK’s Leading Underwater Diversity Co-Ordinator
Splashguard Toadundergarments was, until his unfortunate accident, the UK’s leading underwater diversity co-ordinator. As we all know, it is the dedicated work of this country’s selfless diversity co-ordinators that has made this country into what it is now. They have worked hard and selflessly to ensure that people not matter what race, creed, background, ethnicity, sexual preference or even those with a desire to wear socks with sandals have diversity thrust upon them.
Of course, many peopl...
January 27, 2016
The Witching Hour
It wasn’t what she expected. But then she was twenty-five now. She’d learnt that whatever you expected, what tended to turn up wasn’t it. Sheena had, long ago, given up on magic. She knew the world didn’t work like that. She’d given up on it as more or less the same time she’d given up on handsome princes. The princes she’d seen were not that handsome. The only trait they ever seemed to have in common with handsome men was a complete and utterly devoted love of themselves, something else that...
January 25, 2016
New on Wattpad: Juggling Balls Chapter Two
Juggling Balls?
Martin hated mysteries. Especially minor niggling ones like this that would, no doubt, have some mildly disappointing revelation at the end of it all. He had expended a great deal of effort to get his life boring, predictable and humdrum. Having it disrupted by something this trivial, especially on a Saturday, his day for doing as little as possible, was already beginning to annoy him.
He sat down at the desk in his room and put the package down in front of him. He stared at i...
January 22, 2016
The Greatest State Banquet of Our Time
Rhomboid Dietaryrequirements is probably the UK’s leading celebrity chef. His TV programme, Dietaryrequirements Cooks a Bit of Dinner is probably the most popular non-naked cookery programme on the television these days.
Recently he produced a state banquet for the Queen and several European heads of state to celebrate the invention of the spoon. For that regal affair, Dietaryrequirements produced a version of what has become his signature dish, egg and chips with a jus of brown sauce.
Of cou...
January 21, 2016
New Novel Out Now: In the Beginning
My latest novel In the Beginning is out – on Kindle – today.
Get it here (UK) or here (US).
In the Beginning
It’s a God’s life.
Albert Meadows, recently made redundant and tired of his disappointing life, is looking to make a new start and is desperate to find something worthwhile to fill his time.
So, what could be better than creating a brand new universe of his own, in his garden shed?
But, when he introduces intelligent life to his new universe, things don’t turn out as he planned, especi...
January 20, 2016
New at ABCtales : A Knight of the Realm
Hopalite Trebuchet was probably one of the greatest Knights in English history. He was more famous in his day that Robin Hood, Richard the Lionheart, Doris the Bold and Sir Steve the Bastard put together.
Not only did Trebuchet turn out for both sides during the War of the Roses, coming on as a late substitute for the Yorkist side at the battle of Tewkesbury, he was also one of the Lancastrian’s leading scorers.
Not only that, he was also a leading knight in the lesser known War of the Milk T...
