Harry Nicholson's Blog: 1513fusion, page 6

Nowt to do

I’ve finished writing the sequel to ‘Tom Fleck’. It’s called ‘The Black Caravel,’ and I’m now waiting for Amazon to complete the combination of the paperback and eBook pages. But it’s there if you’d like it. Meanwhile – having nothing … Continue reading →

Farne Islands in June

I’m not long back from a week solitary retreat on the shore opposite Lindisfarne on the Northumberland coast. Went there to write, to attempt to complete my current novel (A sequel to “Tom Fleck”. I need another 1,000 words). I … Continue reading →

Walks with the cuckoo.

I’ve been for a constitutional on Sleights Moor. Exercise is good, but I move so slowly – there is so much to engage the senses.  Here be a bronze age burial mound with a trig point, a good place to … Continue reading →

Flowing glass.

Enamelled copper bowl, diameter 4 inch. The glass flowed to please – sometimes it’s stubborn. Bowl with leaf image. I’ll try more, now the acer is in spring leaf. Don’t recall what I was attempting here – but it will … Continue reading →

Urthona Review

Urthona arts journal has reviewed my ‘Wandering About’, and I’m pleased. Review in the arts journal, Urthona  issue 32 Harry Nicholson is uniquely himself in ‘Wandering  About’. Here is a poet with working-class origins who writes of his native North-East … Continue reading →

We slip away . . .

Here’s me, spending Sunday, writing another historical novel, and this appears: http://www.newstatesman.com/2016/03/c...  

Enamels on copper, fresh from the kiln.

Heart Toucher

I’d stopped looking at my novel’s Amazon page. I see today ‘Tom Fleck’ has had 35 reviews and one I’d missed touches me right in the heart centre. The reader has completely caught the spirit I intended. Here it is: 4.0 out of 5 … Continue reading →

Monday Funnies – advice from an old friend by email…

Originally posted on Chris The Story Reading Ape's Blog:
My thanks to Phil aka The Tasmanian Devil

Nacreous Clouds over Sleights, North Yorkshire.

February 2nd brought a set of rare clouds at sunset. They are high altitude, contain ice, and are commonest in polar regions. The Met. people say that they are destructive of ozone because of the CFCs they carry.