Posted on 13 October, 2026
Southam Book Festival
Two years and two days on from my previous showing, with two more books on offer, at the Southam book festival again on Sunday with …
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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, …
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. …