by David West | Jul 30, 2024 | News
During a wonderful weekend with our friends Angie and Frank, we dined in Chichester. The oldest building in Chichester is the Saxon church of Saint Olave, built in 1050. My immediate thoughts were of what those who built the church and worshipped there were soon to...
by David West | Jul 21, 2024 | News
We were watching Linda Ronstadt: The Sound of My Voice last night. She is an incredibly great singer in so many genres. The number of connections she has with other great artists is phenomenal, and suddenly I was connected back to my very first day in Oxford. My...
by David West | Jun 30, 2024 | News
As an author, words are the tools of my trade. Like most retired people I know, I exercise my brain each morning with a few puzzles. I start with Quad Word, then move on to Wordle, followed by Sudoku. For anyone not familiar with Wordle it involves trying to guess a...
by David West | Jun 27, 2024 | News
The article that caught my attention in this month’s Red Herrings, the bulletin of the Crime Writers’ Association, is by Bryan J Mason. He was on a historical fiction panel at CrimeFest this year and was asked about the level of accuracy needed to depict the past. He...
by David West | Jun 23, 2024 | News
Claire has just been watching Coco again. The story revolves around the belief that you don’t finally die until the last person alive forgets you. We visited the Tutankhamun exhibition at the Saatchi Gallery in London in 2020. I think it was there that I read that the...
