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Another airline story 'Party Piece'.

Another airline story in my story collection 'The Mask' is called  'Party Piece' and the narrator is an air hostess, in older age, looking back on the day she flew to Liverpool  on a Fokker Friendship, her intimate  relationship with the co-pilot who was crewing with her, the various flying phobias common to her hostess colleagues and her own ongoing uneasiness with the rear door on that particular aircraft and which, not for the first time, was causing her angst on that fatefu...

Airline short stories.

For those of you who like reading about the glamour of airlines and romantic stopovers you will find three aircrew stories in 'The Mask and Other Stories'    Perhaps you will like 'Poodles and Diamonds' about Mary, newly wed and crewing with two engaged hostesses, who have nothing more serious on their minds than keeping their sparklers sparkling in a measure of gin in the galley and aiming to buy up half of New York when they land.  Not so long since Mary was just like them bu...

Short story extract from 'Stopover'.

"Anne was a helpless romantic, hopelessly in love with the idea of romance. In the airline she saw it all around her. It was in the other hostesses' sparkling engagement rings, the pilots' gold-braided uniforms. From dreaming, breathing, anticipating romance, Anne had created her own romantic aura. With her creamy apple skin, her slender velvet-beribboned neck, her crowning-glory of jet black hair, she managed to suggest to the more artistic amongst her admirers, of a work by Romney, perhaps...

Airline novels!

There can be a lot of research when writing airline novels. But the ability to get into the mind of the pilot when he finds himself In an emergency, whether flying solo in light aircraft or at the controls of a jet adds drama and excitement to an already fraught situation. In my first Celtic Airways novel 'Up Up and Away' when Captain Graham Pender is trying to land his B707 in Colombo in a heavy Monsoon storm a migraine attack coincides with a faulty ILS - Instrument  Landing  System...

Books!

Like most lovers of books with their satisfying smell and feel I never thought I would stray from the traditional manner of enjoying them until I tried Ebooks. Such ease of flicking over the brightly lit pages. How I would have loved a Kindle or IPad when a kid trying to read by torchlight under the covers!

Old-fashioned scent The Irish Garden April 2013

Keep the magic in the garden all year round

Light up your garden not only at Christmas but all through the year!

My favourite picture of the Sacred Heart