Play my radio show
Home Every Monday between 2PM and 5PM (GMT) I play a variety of tunes on my internet "Music Box…
Sketching the windmill
Home Hey it's Springtime! A lovely day brought out lots of visitors to the town. I felt…
High wire radio act ...
Home In September 2018 after a phone chat / interview, I had an on-air broadcasting trial with…
Barcelona to Almería - travelling to Spain with a dog, part 8
Home In my previous post we travelled by train at speeds of up to 295 kilometres per hour through…
Paris to Barcelona - travelling to Spain with a dog: part 7
Home I dimly remember that in Dieppe to Paris, the previous post of this England to Spain…
Dieppe to Paris - travelling to Spain with a dog, part 6
Arrival sur le Continent In the last post I made here - Ferry Cross the Channel - me, my wife and…
The Rolling Stones at Old Trafford
Home The Rolling Stones, truly legendary rock musicians, played a gig on 5 June 2018 and I…
Newhaven to Dieppe - travelling to Spain with a dog, part 4
Home Previously in my Pet Friendly post I explained how year after year the UK winter got me down.…
Dieppe to Paris - travelling to Spain with a dog, part 6
Home In my post Arrival Sur Le Continent we'd arrived in the port of Dieppe on the DFDS /…
Borrow Box
Home So your library closed… In 2016, 343 libraries closed according to this article on BBC News.…
Book review: “Arthur Ransome and Captain Flint's Trunk"
Home You might enjoy my appreciation of Christina Hardyment's book, "Arthur Ransome and Captain…
Writers' podcast
Home Episode Notes These writers have the cheek to describe themselves as “a useless bunch…
Self portrait
Home It was a hot day and I wanted to be outside relaxing in the fresh air, but I’ve always got to…
Preparations - travelling to Spain with a dog: part 3
Home Pet friendly? In my last post The fly in the ointment I let you in on the fact that in the…
The fly In the Ointment - travelling to Spain with a dog, part 2
Home The fly in the ointment In my first post about escaping the worst part of the year in the UK,…
Winter blues - travelling to Spain with a dog, part 1
Home In my latter years I’ve become more unhappy with the effect of winter on my state of mind and…
The Empuhuh
Home At a meet-up I had 20 minutes to write something based on the word 'empire',so I turned to my…
Sketches of Spain
Home For a birthday my wife bought me a couple of lessons with an excellent local artist. He paints…
Round robin anyone?
Home Read about round robin story writing here. To do it you need to be in a room with or…
Gardenias again
Home I wrote this piece of flash fiction after I'd been given, what we writers call 'a prompt'. A…
Interruptions
Home Steve got a writing toolkit for Christmas, so we each took one of its' emery boards containing…
Our day at Kelvingrove Art Gallery
Home We visited Glasgow's Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum where I shot some video on my…
The wheels on the bus ...
Home On Facebook, Writers and Artists Yearbook posted "Writing exercise time: write a short…
About 35°C in the shade
Home 'Opening the wardrobe door' was a recent writing prompt I was given. Quick as a flash fiction…
6 word story anyone?
Home Ernest Hemingway, I love you for everything you ever wrote.. but don't worry... it's love in a…
Murder. No mystery.
Home The runes were cast and these are what the gods came back with - a black cat, a lightning…
About me
Home Reading and writing have always been easier for me than 'rithmetic, so that's why this isn't…
For Your Pleasure
Home Watch my video while listening to my poem, “For Your Pleasure”, written following…
Photo prompt kills!
Home The rain was falling in rivulets down the windows by the time the car pulled up outside the…
Two poems ...
Home I wrote a couple of 'small but perfectly formed' poems...The first is my take on an 'echo'…
Tommy's tale
Home It was getting very late and everyone was dispirited after the last announcement given…
Is there life?
Home More photographic prompts er... "prompted" me to combine 2 snaps into a quick sci-fi 70's…
bots
Home At a writers meeting, we wrote a piece based on the "interruptions" game. Lauren gave us a…
Cento
HomeAt our writing group we started to write a Cento. Lauren brought a great many poetry books by…
Oscar, Ella and Ringo
Home Those are the names of our cats. I said are, and that’s true. They are the names of our cats,…
Calvin and Hobbes
Home Recently, after making a donation, my wife brought home a book of comic strips from a charity…
Win Tickets for Wordpool's Gala Launch Event
Home The only creativity act I've managed since my last post, "Streets of Fire", has been some…
Streets of fire
Home A picture of a boy and a miner freshly out of the mine inspired me to write this piece of…
The Elephant of Doom
Home Steve Wilson (no relation!) published another of his brilliant books "The Element of…
The Morning After the Night Before
Home Lauren brought in 6 paintings to inspire. The one that "spoke" to me was “Rooms by the Sea”…
Horror flash
Home I wrote this piece when my friend Lauren brought in another yet another great idea - write…
Writer's Block
Home Writer's block I call it. It’s my block of flats I’m talking about though. Where I live. Get…
Just like Conan Doyle?
Home Don't deny you always wanted to write like Conan Doyle? Me too. So I gave it a go.
Adolphus and Me
Home It was a beautiful night as I drove North Ventura Avenue in my hired Neon. No air con and it…
Haiku
Home Haiku is a Japanese form of short poetry. A traditional haiku consist of 17 syllables, in…
Bonnie and Clyde
Home I wrote this when I got a homework request for something biographical in a college class. It…
En Ronda
Home My poem "En Ronda" below, was inspired by a photograph of a giant covering, on a building…
Ash crisis? What ash crisis?
Home Ash crisis over? Sadly it looks likely, as confirmation of our homeward flight comes through…
On Holiday in the Shadow of the Volcano
Home I'm on holiday, and you can read all about it... I’ve struggled out of the creaking bed,…
Illuminating Hadrian's Wall
Home We spent some time on Hadrian's Wall taking part in its' illumination, commemorating the…
The Dean of Gibraltar
Home Here's an extract from the first story in what is slowly becoming a whimsical series about…
An Introduction to Gibraltar
Home I wrote a light-hearted look at somewhere I have a lot of affection for ... Gibraltar!…
In The Machine
Home This is a story I wrote inspired by a competition for a 2000 word story with a theme of…
Those Were the Days
Home A few years ago some friends and I made a nostalgic return to some old haunts.…
How Honey Got Happy
Home As soon as Honey Dale woke up, Steve Taylor’s face swam into view. It was a waking nightmare.…
Perfect Day
Home As part of an exercise in characterisation, the men in my class were asked to write a piece…
Francisco y Cayetano Rivera Ordonez
Home I read and enjoyed for a second time, Death and the Sun, A Matador's Season in the Heart of…
Joosy
Home This story was inspired by my sometime tutor's Bichon Frise dog. It's a dirty job but someone…
Hand in hand with the great Stephen King?
Home Recently in my creative writing class we carried out an exercise, adding to the beginning or…
The Rock
Home This was one of the first pieces of 'flash fiction' I ever wrote. I wrote it at the first…
I'm back...
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Home Some of my friends in Gibraltar noticed the site was down. I'm happy to report it's back…