Windsor Castle, EV Range, Skoda Enyaq, and Speed
I haven’t written anything about my Skoda Enyaq for around a month. As yet, I still haven’t needed to use the public charging network. Claire and I went to visit Windsor Castle on Friday, and we took the Enyaq. We started off with it charged to 80%, and it was showing...
World Book Day 2023
Classic FM informed me that today, 2nd March 2023, is world book day. Perhaps as an author I should have known that. What is world book day anyway? UNESCO created world book day on 23rd April 1995, and it is now celebrated in over a hundred countries. The Scotsman...
Red Herrings March 2023
The latest edition of Red Herrings arrived today. It’s the bulletin of the Crime Writers’ Association, or CWA for short. I love that crime writers have a bulletin rather than a newsletter, how appropriate. There are some interesting articles. Anne Penketh has written...
Book 5 – Main Research Stage Complete
Today I finished reading The Young Richelieu. Elizabeth Marvik wrote a magnificent psychoanalytical biography of Cardinal Richelieu, chief advisor to Louis XIII. Having now read her biographies of both men, I feel equipped to move onto the next stage of Book 5 in the...
Book 5 – Research Update – Richelieu
I have reached page 169 of 213 of Young Richelieu, by Elizabeth Marvik. You will remember that I read her biography of Louis XIII last year. Her biography of his prime minister is equally useful. So far I have learnt that Richelieu inherited a sharp legal brain from...
The Piano, Playing, and Writing
We watched episode 1 of The Piano last night on Channel 4. Claudia Winkleman is the host, Lang Lang and Mika are the judges. The format is that a piano is placed in a public place and people can have a go at playing it. Everyone played excellently. I don’t know how...
Valentine’s Day & Saint Valentine
For the thirty-fifth time, I think, Claire and I exchanged Valentine’s Day cards today. Valentine’s Day is a huge industry, worth around $20 billion dollars a year I read, but where does the association of Saint Valentine with lovers come from? From the academic...
Figaro, Footballers, and Factotum.
In my post at the weekend, I said I’d let you know how we got on when we got home. Getting home wasn’t as straightforward as we’d assumed, there was a rail replacement coach service from Reading. I’ll get around to Figaro, but we’ll start with footballers. Blue Harlem...
EV Range Anxiety? How about 27,000KM?
I have posted about my new Electric Vehicle (EV) and had comments from friends about range anxiety, and how hydrogen might be a better solution. Well, a newsletter from ZapMap alerted me to this phenomenal adventure. Chris and Julie Ramsey are planning to set off in...
Windsor Castle, EV Range, Skoda Enyaq, and Speed
I haven’t written anything about my Skoda Enyaq for around a month. As yet, I still haven’t needed to use the public charging network. Claire and I went to visit Windsor Castle on Friday, and we took the Enyaq. We started off with it charged to 80%, and it was showing...
World Book Day 2023
Classic FM informed me that today, 2nd March 2023, is world book day. Perhaps as an author I should have known that. What is world book day anyway? UNESCO created world book day on 23rd April 1995, and it is now celebrated in over a hundred countries. The Scotsman...
Red Herrings March 2023
The latest edition of Red Herrings arrived today. It’s the bulletin of the Crime Writers’ Association, or CWA for short. I love that crime writers have a bulletin rather than a newsletter, how appropriate. There are some interesting articles. Anne Penketh has written...
Book 5 – Main Research Stage Complete
Today I finished reading The Young Richelieu. Elizabeth Marvik wrote a magnificent psychoanalytical biography of Cardinal Richelieu, chief advisor to Louis XIII. Having now read her biographies of both men, I feel equipped to move onto the next stage of Book 5 in the...
Book 5 – Research Update – Richelieu
I have reached page 169 of 213 of Young Richelieu, by Elizabeth Marvik. You will remember that I read her biography of Louis XIII last year. Her biography of his prime minister is equally useful. So far I have learnt that Richelieu inherited a sharp legal brain from...
The Piano, Playing, and Writing
We watched episode 1 of The Piano last night on Channel 4. Claudia Winkleman is the host, Lang Lang and Mika are the judges. The format is that a piano is placed in a public place and people can have a go at playing it. Everyone played excellently. I don’t know how...
Valentine’s Day & Saint Valentine
For the thirty-fifth time, I think, Claire and I exchanged Valentine’s Day cards today. Valentine’s Day is a huge industry, worth around $20 billion dollars a year I read, but where does the association of Saint Valentine with lovers come from? From the academic...
Figaro, Footballers, and Factotum.
In my post at the weekend, I said I’d let you know how we got on when we got home. Getting home wasn’t as straightforward as we’d assumed, there was a rail replacement coach service from Reading. I’ll get around to Figaro, but we’ll start with footballers. Blue Harlem...
EV Range Anxiety? How about 27,000KM?
I have posted about my new Electric Vehicle (EV) and had comments from friends about range anxiety, and how hydrogen might be a better solution. Well, a newsletter from ZapMap alerted me to this phenomenal adventure. Chris and Julie Ramsey are planning to set off in...