Updates

Posted on 25 February, 2025

Guayaquil sunset

First business trip of the year to Ecuador, where there is always something worth seeing in the two main cities as well as the countryside.

Posted on 31 January, 2025

Happy 2025

Before diving from the springboard of dry January into who knows what wetness this year may bring, I look back to December 2019 when members …

Posted on 24 December, 2024

The Bells of St Clement’s – Merry Xmas Everybody

A rare double church visit on 17 December. Around noon with my cousin Sue and her husband Steve to light some candles in memory of …

Posted on 26 November, 2024

The Christmas of 69

Not sure who took the photo, but I think it was 1969 when Michael Jackson dropped in on an unsuspecting family at Henson House in …

Posted on 12 October, 2024

Author interview with Silverwood Books

Thanks to SilverWood Books, publishers of all four of mine to date including the latest #sunnysideofthehouse for putting out on social media my recent interview …

Posted on 24 September, 2024

Brian Bailey scrubbed up well with his dear wife Chris

Last week on what would have been Brian’s 80th birthday (17 September 2024) I met my cousin Sue, her husband Steve, my aunt Jean – …

Posted on 8 August, 2024

BAILEY 101

Extract from my book of boyhood memories to be published 17 August, ‘The Sunny Side of the House’. ” Allen Edward Bailey was their first …

Posted on 21 July, 2024

Secret harmonies

With thanks again to my friend Colin Gough for last month’s guest post, my featured picture is a page from a third-form essay he set …

Posted on 15 June, 2024

From teacher to priest to writer, a goodly progression – meet Goffy!

Rather than talk about my own writing in this month’s post, I hand the stage to another friend who has become increasingly active as an author …