Public Charging
I’ve posted recently about my EV range experience, and I used the public charging network for the first time yesterday. We were going to a family funeral in Wellingborough, Northampton. I calculated the round trip as 243 miles. Because my range at 80% charge is around...
Research, Women, and Small Boats
Writing historical fiction demands an immense amount of research. All writers must conduct research, but not all writers need to worry about whether potatoes had reached Europe yet. I enjoy researching my novels in the Sir Anthony Standen Adventures. Today is...
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...
Public Charging
I’ve posted recently about my EV range experience, and I used the public charging network for the first time yesterday. We were going to a family funeral in Wellingborough, Northampton. I calculated the round trip as 243 miles. Because my range at 80% charge is around...
Research, Women, and Small Boats
Writing historical fiction demands an immense amount of research. All writers must conduct research, but not all writers need to worry about whether potatoes had reached Europe yet. I enjoy researching my novels in the Sir Anthony Standen Adventures. Today is...
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...