So you’re thinking of writing. Me to, plus millions more of us. The idea is fine but it is when you get down to the nitty gritty that you discover it’s not as easy as you first thought. I will give you an example. I have just edited my novel – Rogues, Riches & Retribution, it will go on sale again in a few months time, and the editing work alone has taken considerable time and effort....

Hi Readers. I’ve missed quite a number of days in writing this blog so apologies to regular readers. The reason is that I have been re-editing my book, Rogues, Riches & Retribution, and it took longer than anticipated. Luckily it has now been dispatched to the publisher and I will advise you all in a blog when it will be ready to purchase. My thought for this blog was to write a few more...

Hi Everyone. Here we are at the end of February already. 16% of the year already gone. A little frightening eh! So what are most people preoccupied with at the moment before summer dawns? Holidays me thinks. I don’t know about you but virtually every day I read of some company somewhere offering holiday deals on the web. Quite a number are interesting but at the end of the day its all about...

Happy New Year to all my readers and I hope 2012 brings good health and happiness to everyone. To an extent we were pleased to see the end of 2011 and it was not the best of years and we lost two good people. 2012 came in with  bang with a super firework display. We hadn’t really decided what to do as the big displays are over an hours drive from our home. Our little one had fallen asleep and...

Hi There. Wherever have you been? It seems like ages since we were last in contact. Seems like? Two months if my memory is anything to go by. Well, its all down to me, sorry. I decided to take time out and get away for a while so off we went to one of my favourite places – France. I have good memories of times spent there and not so good ones of Charles de Gaule airport. Unfortunately it hasn’t...

I never expected to be writing again on the subject of the big C but today I received really, really sad news from my middle son in the UK. His wife has been admitted to a Hospice and taken off all drugs. She is now on pain killers so it is a matter of time before she walks the silent path. Last week my son told his two young children the sad news. They both celebrated their birthdays at the beginning...

I thought today that I should pen a few lines on food and write about what we eat. Food is after all a subject of interest to everyone but it isn’t a subject everyone will read. If your into preparing food or trying to lose weight then food article will catch your attention but some of us are content with our bodies and never put on weight and so the scales are not necessary and neither are articles...

Has it happened to you? A funny thing I mean. Something that made you smile or laugh. It happened to me last week and at the time I thought here’s a wee blog to post. I will be interested to learn if any of you guys have had a smiling experience. What was it then? Well it occurred when I went to the hairdressers. Establishments that are not what one would call funny, in fact men’s hairdressing...

Apologies to my regular readers as I have neglected writing a blog due to working on an assignment that has taken some time and coupled with that I spend many hours in the evening helping my young daughter with her school work, teaching her to swim and finally reading a story before bedtime. I enjoy every minute we spend together and if you are a parent you will know how precious that time is. One...

Today I made a telephone call that was to prompt this blog. To many of you who are new to reading me then you should know that I’m a Brit and even though I have not resided in my homeland for some time I am proud of my country. Not always proud of the antics some of my fellow countrymen get up to but then we all can’t be alike. I am very patriotic and was once tagged a Royalist. This...