Posted on 22 September, 2026
Keep your chin up!
As readers of my boyhood memories ‘Sunny Side of the House’ will know, my dad joined the army as a teenager in World War Two, …
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Posted on 24 August, 2026
Pre-publication party for ‘Wendy: When Life Gives You Strawberries – Memories of a Fenland Boy (III)’
The weather was fine, the company great, a company of family and friends aged from 3 to 87. A good number of them were around …
Posted on 31 July, 2026
Lutterworth Writers Group – Summer Social 2026
Our annual dinner during the two months a year when we do not hold meetings at the town hall more dedicated to writing, the thing …
Posted on 19 June, 2026
Rugby Love-Inn
Town’s seventies Bull, first date with the one I came to Rugby for, from Northampton. The Duck, the Windmill, Tavern-in-the-Town As was, along beside unaltered …
Posted on 30 May, 2026
Why the long faces?
From Gumball at Grand Bay to Irvine at Hay, it’s been a busy few weeks. See latest newsletter for more on the Hay Literary Festival …
Posted on 18 March, 2026
Seventeen in Salzburg – Dave Daze Tuesday 8 August 1973
Among all the sights of Salzburg, Hans and I failed to see Last Tango in Paris. 4.30 aufgestanden nach Salzburg gegangen konnten letzten Tango leider …
Posted on 22 February, 2026
Summer Daze 1981
Ah, those days when you could smoke wherever and whenever you wanted without fear or reproach; when you could drink as much as you liked …
Posted on 30 November, 2025
Meet the Author 2025 – ‘blunt, witty, and very human!’
I always take advantage of SilverWood Books interview feature, with different things to say (I hope) for each of my five published works to date. …
Posted on 31 October, 2025
Marathon montage
I didn’t quite work round the clock or around the world in training for the Rugby half marathon, but I gave it a whirl with …