Rupert Grech's Blog, page 15

Better than fiction?

I just finished reading the memoir of one of the child actors in the movie, “Willy Wonker and the Chocolate Factory.” Finished it in two days. A really lovely read; it seemed honest and heartfelt. Love reading memoirs. The stories of real people are always so interesting. Especially, how one major event can profoundly influence a […]

Death of an anti-salesman

So sad to hear of the death of Lou Reed. One of those rare musicians who actually changed what the world understood as music and spawned a whole new genre. With Velvet Underground, he was the first to reject the accepted norms of commercial music and created music for those who were socially disenfranchised and […]

Real Men?

The only thing that I abhor in Malta is this so called “hunting” situation. It’s the one thing I really hate about this wonderful country. Men and boys wander the small amount of countryside left in Malta, shooting at birds. Every morning during hunting season, seven days a week, I am woken by the distressing […]

Men Crying

Just recently, a third male who has read the stories told me how reading one or two of them brought tears to his eyes. This has brought immeasurable satisfaction and sense of achievement to me, and in a way, justified the effort to write and publish my little book. Not because I like making men, […]

The latest “moderate” seller!

Well, we’re not exactly breaking all records, but the book seems to be selling well for a new publication in Malta. The Book Depository was temporarily out of stock last week and had to restock. The bookshop at Embassy, in Valletta, sold the few it was assigned and had to get more from the Republic […]

Blue Mountains, NSW, Australia. The beauty belies the seriousness of the situation.

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The fires are getting close!

Below is a map showing the nearest uncontrolled fires near my Australian home in the Blue Mountains, NSW. My place is about fifteen minutes to the west of this photograph. My friend Kim will be out there fighting the fires somewhere. He tells me that he comes home late each night, exhausted. He is a […]

Fires near my Australian home in the Blue Mountains, NSW.

The current fire situation is concerning. My friend Kim is a Head Ranger in the area and he says that it is the worst he has ever seen. My place is on McKanes Falls Rd, which is usually okay at these times of high fire danger, but this is not a usual event. Hope all is […]

Love this aspect of Malta! Hope it never changes.

I was talking with a local artist about my book. He wanted to buy one so I suggested we do a swap with one of his water colours and I pay him the difference (my book is €10 over here and his watercolours sell for €15). He refused the extra, so we did a straight […]

Twitter

One of the bonuses of being published is that I was forced into the world of social media. A world that I’ve had a natural aversion too in the past. Part of my contract was that I start Facebook pages, this blog and a twitter account. I’m really having fun with Twitter. You get to […]