Casual Blog
Hope you have all read my book, Harry and Me and Crystal Makes Three! Will I write a further one? Not sure. However, there are loads of things I really want to comment on; one being dad! I gather one person felt that I had been somewhat unfair to dad. I have had a long,…
Away from St Mark’s Square the back streets were quiet only muted sounds being heard. Snow was falling. White flakes tumbled down on masked costumed revellers, giving an appearance of fairyland. Ludovico has chosen his costume carefully, or so he told himself. He wore a larva or volta mask. it was typically Venetian, white, and…
As I write Classic FM is playing, the tune Ladies in Lavender by Nigel Hess, Joshua Bell on the violin. He coaxes such heart rending emotions from his violin. It is sheer magic and never fails to move me, to transport me back in time . It is a tune I’ll always associate with my …
A Flame in your Heart I’d been away so hadn’t seen her for a few months. Even so on that Sunday I was shocked at the change. Her face looked thin. Her eyes haunted. She appeared frail, tired, frightened. She sat down and I saw her navy dress and jacket hung limply. There had been…
She’d been working at the alehouse for almost a year when Thomas Allen first came in. A devout Catholic or so she was told – a man who had lost his wife and young son. With no-one at home to keep him company other than his dour sister who kept house for him he had…
Watching Sense and Sensibility recently there was one scene where Colonel Brandon was reading out these words to Miss Marianne Dashwood. It got me thinking about what we may have lost because of Covid, friends, freedoms, choices, etc. Yet if we really look , if we seek, what do we find or discover anew?. Friendships,…
It was night and the council car park was badly lit. I had arranged to meet a friend at the local museum for a talk on all things spooky. It was Halloween after all. £5 per ticket for over an hour’s entertainment plus refreshments wasn’t bad. I was looking forward to it. My friend was…
CRIME SECTION. New library card in hand Richard reached for a book by a well-known author. Teifi-Valley Coroner series. He’d found the first one in a local charity shop in Llandrindod Wells whilst on holiday. He was hooked. To find the others in his local library was an unexpected bonus. The series was set in…
Harry’s second book is due to be published in November 2021. It is not a massive ‘tome’ or full of learned information and references. What it is is the continuation of the highs and lows of his life with a family. Some of the trauma he undoubtedly experienced on a puppy farm may never be…
Two Up, Two Down He wasn’t expecting the call. Surgery had finished and he was getting ready to sit down, glass in hand and relax and have the stew Jean had left in the Aga. ‘Blast’ he thought – ‘who on earth is it at his hour.’ He was tempted not to listen to the…