Posted on 28 June, 2025
Ludwig and Marilyn in Norway
I knew the famous (if unread by me) Austrian philosopher Wittgenstein was a Cambridge man, and who does not know of the US sex goddess? …
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Posted on 31 May, 2025
The Seven Stations, Caracas
There is a ‘pagan’ version, amounting (I was told) to a pub crawl in the centre of Caracas, but that will have to wait for …
Posted on 13 April, 2025
Coming home to Lincoln
This weekend I was at the Writing East Midlands (WEM) annual writers’ conference at Lincoln University. My son Joe came with me to a city …
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 – …