Updates

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 …

Posted on 25 May, 2024

Uncle Buck

Me and Uncle Buck roll up at Hunny fair 20 August 2023.