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Tuesday, 12 December 2023

Er, more writing (to prove I am as good as my word)

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Well, there you are, a man as good as his word and you can’t often say that. As I am sitting in the Costa Coffee branch on the Old Brompton ...
Monday, 11 December 2023

Ten days in France, now back home again

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Illats, SW France Not so long ago, I reported that I had finally finished ‘My Hemingway bollocks’, officially ‘The Hemingway enigma’, and th...
Tuesday, 28 November 2023

. . . so the dogs bark and the caravan moves on

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The other day I posted that I had finally completed all the work on a book I’m calling The Hemingway Enigma and that it is available to be ...
Tuesday, 21 November 2023

Now published and available on Amazon

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The book I’ve been slaving away on for the past few years, The Hemingway enigma: How did a middling writer achieve such global literary fame...
Monday, 9 October 2023

A schlepp and a half to a wedding in Hamburg, one which some might take in their stride. Me, I’d rather not too often, thank you very much. Too many early mornings

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It was off to Germany last Wednesday, for my youngest nephew’s wedding, and here are a few of the piccies I took. The journey was a tad tort...
Tuesday, 29 August 2023

Me, the complete bastard (and that is not intended as some kind of ironic joke)

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Today, on August 29, 1976, thus 47 years ago, I did one of the most selfish things I’ve ever done and about which to this day I feel ashamed...
Thursday, 17 August 2023

OFFICIAL Private Eye is slowing dying of respectability: a nation mourns. A warning to all – never, but never, become ‘respectable’

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WARNING! THIS ENTRY MIGHT DISTRESS READERS WHO PRIDE THEMSELVES ON ‘BEING ENLIGHTENED’, ‘HAVING A SENSE OF HUMOUR’ AND FOR WHOM ‘BEING PART ...
Monday, 19 June 2023

Well, hello Singapore, so unexpected!

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Hello Singapore! Someone there – or perhaps 3,590 odd people there – like me. At at least that’s what the stats tell me. It could of course ...
Saturday, 10 June 2023

Bugger Trump, he is now in many ways the sideshow. It is the dangers to US democracy which must now be considered (though Trump set the ball rolling)

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In the past I have often joked about my age, ‘humorously’ exaggerating it. I suspect that was more a kind of double-bluff, in some ways feel...
Saturday, 27 May 2023

Two songs, and apology and and another explanation . . . (You surely can't get enough of those)

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First of all there these, two short videos accompanying tunes I’ve produced (‘composed’ sounds just a tad too hi-falutin’). Here’s the first...