There was a time when people used to claim that they wanted a better world for their children to grow up in, I remember it well, which makes me wonder why no one else seems to these days? Let's be honest, this today is not the best of all possible worlds
What Makes a Writer’s Day? This!
Finished reading this wonderful book. A historical gem with hats off to the author Peter Whitaker for some seriously accurate research which brought the era to life
A hiatus can be good for you and so can a change in direction
So far writing has been little more than a hobby, a very rewarding one intellectually speaking, but a little lean on the royalties if I am honest. Becoming a best-selling author is still a goal to be achieved and I am not giving up on it, I am, however, looking at alternative forms of writing other than penning novels. Now that my mind is made up on the issue, I am going to start looking at the kind of opportunities that exist out there, and which are largely unknown to me
A Little More Time Away
Life just has a way of intruding into your routines. My expectations for the past 6 or more weeks have certainly not been on track
Why are we normalising poverty?
As long as charities exist so will all of the problems that they supposedly address, including poverty, which has now become normal and socially acceptable
The Three Musketeers by Alexandre Dumas
I expect that most people have an idea of the story of D'Artangan, Athos, Porthos, and Aramis that is actually gleaned from the many film and occasional television adaptations of the novel rather than having read the book
Enabled, not Disabled
The word disabled raises nothing but negative connotations. It defines a person as physically and/ or mentally impaired, injured, or incapacitated
Should Iolos Fall – Part Ten
The fact is that most of the things that do happen to us are events that we never meant to occur in the first place! I never meant not to write another blog post for so long, but it happened
A Tale of Two Venues
I am glad that BST is bigger than the Cavern Club as it is likely to have a much greater influence on social attitudes
The Devil Within Us
Those who carry the light must go into the darkness and discover a secret that could save us all!
Peter C Whitaker 