Skoda Enyaq EV Journey T – 1, & Kindle Reviews
I should be picking up the new Skoda Enyaq tomorrow. Skoda Finance sent me some forms to fill in last night. They sent them via Scrive eSign. They required me to upload a photograph of my photo driving license, followed by a selfie, for security purposes....
The EV Journey: T – 7
I have posted a few news items about my decision to switch to an electric car. The EV journey continues.The surveyor from Ohme came yesterday and checked the installation requirements for the charger. He seemed shocked that I’m collecting the car a week today, and...
A Cock and Bull Story
I had a golf lesson today, which went really quite well. Apropos of nothing, perhaps just because it was Wednesday, I thought about my father. Dad used to play on one Wednesday a month with the Cock and Bull Golf Society. They played some very great courses, and dad...
Book Awards and EV Charging
Are book awards a good recommendation? If you’ve read my recent posts, you’ll know that I’ve tried to read Hilary Mantel’s Booker Prize winners. I did finish Wolf Hall, but gave up on Bring Up The Bodies. Her use of language is outstanding, but the story wasn’t...
You Can Leave The Bodies, It Isn’t a Page-Turner
I have read just over a fifth of Hilary Mantel’s Booker Prize winner, Bring Up The Bodies, and I’m giving up. Life’s too short. Yes the language is beautiful, but it’s not a page-turner. If I want beautiful language I can read poetry. There has to be something in a...
What Makes a Book Great, and Wins Booker Prizes
I am reading Bring Up The Bodies, by Hilary Mantel. She has won two Booker Prizes.She won her first with Wolf Hall. Bring Up The Bodies provided the second. I read Wolf Hall around ten years ago, sadly I can’t truthfully say that I enjoyed it. Mantel uses the device...
Perseverance: The Long Journey To Success and Book Signing
I thank my friend and former colleague, Barry Biggs, for sending me an article about a disappointing book signing. Chelsea Banning attended a book signing for her debut novel, Of Crowns and Legends. Unfortunately, or perhaps very fortunately, only two people turned...
The Suggested Assassin Audiobook Published
ACX published The Suggested Assassin audiobook today. So all four of the Sir Anthony Standen Adventures so far are now available as audiobooks. I thank Simon De Deney for doing such a great job of narration and production. I’m looking forward to working with him on...
Writing, Climate, Snow, and Cars
I don’t have much writing news for you today. Called to Account is now available as an audiobook, while The Suggested Assassin is still pending ACX review. The biography of Cardinal Richelieu hasn’t been delivered yet. I want to digest that, and consider him alongside...
Skoda Enyaq EV Journey T – 1, & Kindle Reviews
I should be picking up the new Skoda Enyaq tomorrow. Skoda Finance sent me some forms to fill in last night. They sent them via Scrive eSign. They required me to upload a photograph of my photo driving license, followed by a selfie, for security purposes....
The EV Journey: T – 7
I have posted a few news items about my decision to switch to an electric car. The EV journey continues.The surveyor from Ohme came yesterday and checked the installation requirements for the charger. He seemed shocked that I’m collecting the car a week today, and...
A Cock and Bull Story
I had a golf lesson today, which went really quite well. Apropos of nothing, perhaps just because it was Wednesday, I thought about my father. Dad used to play on one Wednesday a month with the Cock and Bull Golf Society. They played some very great courses, and dad...
Book Awards and EV Charging
Are book awards a good recommendation? If you’ve read my recent posts, you’ll know that I’ve tried to read Hilary Mantel’s Booker Prize winners. I did finish Wolf Hall, but gave up on Bring Up The Bodies. Her use of language is outstanding, but the story wasn’t...
You Can Leave The Bodies, It Isn’t a Page-Turner
I have read just over a fifth of Hilary Mantel’s Booker Prize winner, Bring Up The Bodies, and I’m giving up. Life’s too short. Yes the language is beautiful, but it’s not a page-turner. If I want beautiful language I can read poetry. There has to be something in a...
What Makes a Book Great, and Wins Booker Prizes
I am reading Bring Up The Bodies, by Hilary Mantel. She has won two Booker Prizes.She won her first with Wolf Hall. Bring Up The Bodies provided the second. I read Wolf Hall around ten years ago, sadly I can’t truthfully say that I enjoyed it. Mantel uses the device...
Perseverance: The Long Journey To Success and Book Signing
I thank my friend and former colleague, Barry Biggs, for sending me an article about a disappointing book signing. Chelsea Banning attended a book signing for her debut novel, Of Crowns and Legends. Unfortunately, or perhaps very fortunately, only two people turned...
The Suggested Assassin Audiobook Published
ACX published The Suggested Assassin audiobook today. So all four of the Sir Anthony Standen Adventures so far are now available as audiobooks. I thank Simon De Deney for doing such a great job of narration and production. I’m looking forward to working with him on...
Writing, Climate, Snow, and Cars
I don’t have much writing news for you today. Called to Account is now available as an audiobook, while The Suggested Assassin is still pending ACX review. The biography of Cardinal Richelieu hasn’t been delivered yet. I want to digest that, and consider him alongside...