Milestones
In the world of project management, and project sponsorship, where I used to spend my time, milestones are important. They mark important interim achievements on the way to an ultimate goal. So it was when walking the Camino de Santiago. Each milestone (or kilometre...
Latin – Unfinished Business
While I was in Waterstones with Claire and found the book on rituals, I actually bought Gwynne’s Latin. I have unfinished business with Latin. On my first day at grammar school I was still talking for a few seconds after Mr Wilson shut the classroom door. I was...
Writing Rituals
Yesterday Claire and I visited Waterstones to return the books I’d bought her for her birthday, and to replace them with books she didn’t already have. I came across a book on rituals, and discovered that Victor Hugo had a writing ritual which involved him stripping...
What a Bear
I have posted about my favourite film, The Jungle Book which was a childhood favourite. Who didn’t love Baloo singing about the bare necessities? Baloo is from the Hindi for bear. Sometimes truth is stranger than fiction, and the human antics and behaviours of Baloo...
The Writing Day
An article in ALCS news got me thinking about my writing day. Not every day is a writing day. But then if I’m gardening, playing golf, sailing, or shopping, I might also be thinking through a plot idea, or turning an unsatisfactory phrase over in my head. If I am...
Write Cut Rewrite
I stayed in my college overnight on Friday, following the Aularean Golf Society AGM, and finally visited the exhibition Write Cut Rewrite at the Weston Library. There is something magical about seeing the handwritten manuscripts of great authors with their crossing...
Racism
I try to identify a theme for my novels. The most recent theme was racism, in particular, anti-semitism. As a writer of historical fiction inevitably the themes are inspired by historical events. On 22nd of August 1614 a well documented event took place in Frankfurt,...
Exam Results
I am very happy for all those who have received the exam results they were hoping for, and are now looking forward to university, apprenticeships, or the world of work. It doesn’t feel like forty-six years since I was in the same position. After A levels and the...
Coincidence
Yesterday I received emails from two of my college friends within fifty minutes of each other. The last time Ian had emailed me was almost a year ago. Bob had emailed me in June this year. There was no connection other than they are both friends and would completely...
Milestones
In the world of project management, and project sponsorship, where I used to spend my time, milestones are important. They mark important interim achievements on the way to an ultimate goal. So it was when walking the Camino de Santiago. Each milestone (or kilometre...
Latin – Unfinished Business
While I was in Waterstones with Claire and found the book on rituals, I actually bought Gwynne’s Latin. I have unfinished business with Latin. On my first day at grammar school I was still talking for a few seconds after Mr Wilson shut the classroom door. I was...
Writing Rituals
Yesterday Claire and I visited Waterstones to return the books I’d bought her for her birthday, and to replace them with books she didn’t already have. I came across a book on rituals, and discovered that Victor Hugo had a writing ritual which involved him stripping...
What a Bear
I have posted about my favourite film, The Jungle Book which was a childhood favourite. Who didn’t love Baloo singing about the bare necessities? Baloo is from the Hindi for bear. Sometimes truth is stranger than fiction, and the human antics and behaviours of Baloo...
The Writing Day
An article in ALCS news got me thinking about my writing day. Not every day is a writing day. But then if I’m gardening, playing golf, sailing, or shopping, I might also be thinking through a plot idea, or turning an unsatisfactory phrase over in my head. If I am...
Write Cut Rewrite
I stayed in my college overnight on Friday, following the Aularean Golf Society AGM, and finally visited the exhibition Write Cut Rewrite at the Weston Library. There is something magical about seeing the handwritten manuscripts of great authors with their crossing...
Racism
I try to identify a theme for my novels. The most recent theme was racism, in particular, anti-semitism. As a writer of historical fiction inevitably the themes are inspired by historical events. On 22nd of August 1614 a well documented event took place in Frankfurt,...
Exam Results
I am very happy for all those who have received the exam results they were hoping for, and are now looking forward to university, apprenticeships, or the world of work. It doesn’t feel like forty-six years since I was in the same position. After A levels and the...
Coincidence
Yesterday I received emails from two of my college friends within fifty minutes of each other. The last time Ian had emailed me was almost a year ago. Bob had emailed me in June this year. There was no connection other than they are both friends and would completely...