TALES FROM THE COP SHOP – PART 2

I know you’re all on the edge of your seats waiting for this blog, so here it is – Tales From The Cop Shop – Part 2.

JESUS AND SANTA – THE DYNAMIC DUO

I know it’s a cliché, but the joy of Christmas seems, for a lot of people, to have been swallowed up by the commercialism of the occasion, or at least that’s the perceived perception. But I think there’s something far worse going on. I think Christmas has lost its magic.

TO INDULGE OR NOT TO INDULGE (THAT IS THE CHOICE) feat TALZ FARADAY

I was going to post the second blog in the Tales From The Cop Shop series, but there was a government announcement last week that made me decide to take a little pause in that particular narrative and direct my attention elsewhere

TALES FROM THE COP SHOP -PART 1

I was hoping my second novel EDGE OF CIVILISATION would be published in time for Christmas, but for various reasons, it’s now due out in April 2022

THE BEST DAYS OF MY LIFE (OR AT LEAST SOME OF THEM)

At the school I went to, which resembled a foreboding Victorian prison, at the age of 14, you had to make the life affecting decision whether to go into 4L (languages and literature), 4S (science) or 4T (technical).

EVOLVE TO THE FUTURE

My last blog on the 12th December – It’s Beginning To Look A Lot Like Christmas, I had intended being my last until the New Year, but so much has happened since then, well okay – apart from Christmas,

IT’S BEGINNING TO LOOK A LOT LIKE CHRISTMAS

We got our first Christmas card this year, appropriately enough, on 1st December from friends David and Kay Dunham. Since then, there’s been a steady trickle of cards, so the house is beginning to look a lot like Christmas.

THE TIMES THEY ARE A-CHANGIN’

I was trying to think if there was ever a moment in my life when time actually stood still. I couldn’t think of it. I mention this because since whenever it was this virus thingy kicked off

BUGSY AND KRISTOFER.

Two things happened last week that at first didn’t seem in any way connected – but then I realised there was a connection and it was so strong it was almost tangible.

NO VIRUS, NO PINA COLADA, NO PROBLEM.

Round about now, forty-five years ago, I was starting a summer season of plays at the Shanklin Theatre on the Isle of Wight.

THIS IS NOT PERSONAL SONNY, IT’S STRICTLY BUSINESS

The other day I was watching a documentary about Arthur Miller, the American playwright. For various reasons, I already knew quite a bit about him.

A BEGINNING IS A BEGINNING WHEN IT’S NOT THE END.

Probably the question I’m asked the most is – “How do I become a writer?” And of course, it’s impossible to answer.

PROG JUNCTION

This week I watched the 1968 film Up The Junction. The original book on which the film was based was a collection of sort stories by Nell Dunn.

TAKE THE PLUNGE AND HOPE IT’S NOT THE SHALLOW END

I reckon the biggest question on everybody’s mind at the moment is – “What happens when this lockdown ends, and we get back to ‘normal?’”

TANKED UP HIGH

Last week’s VE day celebrations didn’t quite go to plan in our house. The only thing that happened how it should – and when it should, was the cream tea

SNIDE AND PREJUDICE

I started this blog, mainly because the company that handle our PR, Puzzle Communications, thought it would be a good idea

APRICOTS AND APPLES ARE NOT THE ONLY FRUIT

I could have said 70 or 80 years ago, but that time span would have included World War 11 and that, I think we can safely say, was shittier than this.

MAKE-BELIEVE MEETS CHUTZPAH

A few days ago we were meant to be disembarking from a cruise that would have taken us to a number of Scandinavian countries.

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