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September 14, 2024
#ScenicSaturday September 14th 2024
This continuing series of posts depicts our beautiful world, encouraging people to share them and maybe even help save our unique home planet from human carelessness and indifference. Today’s photo was taken along a rough road in the Forest of Dean. It serves English Forestry and their contractors when they’re felling, planting, or thinning the …
September 9, 2024
Oddities Observed On Outings #22
In this rolling series I’m looking at things seen when out walking. Some objects will be familiar to some readers, but many are likely to be unfamiliar to most. I’m presenting those that caught my attention through incongruity, idiosyncrasy, or simply their odd appearance. I came upon this birch leaf on an autumn walk through …
September 8, 2024
Short Story: A Change of View
This story was published in Words, a quarterly magazine sold in aid of the Winnicott Baby Unit charity. It appeared in issue 57, in early 2006, and was published before I started to write under my usual pen name of today. I received no fee (not expecting one) but did get a free copy of …
September 7, 2024
Further Progress on the #WIP
Hard to believe, but I first posted about the new novel in progress on 11th March this year, when the word count for the actual book had reached 4443 words. By 17th March the count was 20,293 words at Chapter 8. And, on that date, I ‘promised’ to keep you informed of progress. Those with …
#ScenicSaturday September 7th 2024
This continuing series of posts depicts our beautiful world, encouraging people to share them and maybe even help save our unique home planet from human carelessness and indifference. Today’s photo was taken on a trip to Italy to celebrate our 30th Wedding Anniversary in 2018. We were staying in the small town of Stresa, on …
September 6, 2024
There Is No Planet B, by Mike Berners-Lee: #BookReview.
Here is the statement from the back cover of this amazing book: ‘We still have a chance to live better than ever on Planet Earth. But, as humans become ever more powerful, how can we avoid blundering into disaster?’ And this book does its level best to answer that question with positive ideas, suggestions, and …
Continue reading There Is No Planet B, by Mike Berners-Lee: #BookReview.
September 1, 2024
Oddities Observed On Outings #21
In this continuing series I’m looking at things seen when out walking. Some objects will be familiar to some readers, but many are likely to be unfamiliar to most. I’m presenting those that caught my attention through their incongruity, idiosyncrasy, or simply their odd appearance. This was taken on a walk along one of the …
August 31, 2024
#ScenicSaturday August 31st 2024:
This continuing series of posts depicts our beautiful world, encouraging people to share them and maybe even help save our unique home planet from human carelessness and indifference. Today’s photo was taken along the banks of the River Wye on a walk beside the water. It’s one of our favourite spaces. Usually peaceful, the river …
August 29, 2024
Short Story: The Last Early Rising
This story was first published in the Autumn edition of 2005 of Scribble, a small print magazine published by Park Publications. I also posted this to Medium The Last Early Rising ‘What are you thinking about?’ Kerry stroked his abdomen. ‘How to kill our idiot neighbour without being caught.’ Her fingers migrated. ‘That’d certainly stop …
August 24, 2024
#ScenicSaturday August 24th 2024:
This continuing series of posts depicts our beautiful world, encouraging people to share them and maybe even help save our unique home planet from human carelessness and indifference. Today’s photo was taken at the edge of the small market town of Driffield in East Yorkshire. It shows Cadger Lane, in existence certainly since 1642, and …
