Category Archives: Blog

I believe in a world meant for everyone to live together happily in. I believe in living a life of love, sharing and making friends. John Hastings So do I, John, so do I.

Now that I am retired I enjoy watching TV – sometimes I even enjoy watching rubbishy TV – though I do concede that Rick Moody is right when he assers that any day that a person reads a novel instead … Continue reading →

Novelists who churn out books year after year often talk of being able to do up to 1,000 words an hour. My trouble is that I can sometimes do the 1,000 words, but none of them are any good.

I am still at the being intrigued state over podcasts, though the promised BBC downloads are tempting me more and more to get myself up to date. Still, it is encouraging to think that books have not been replaced yet. … Continue reading →

I am busy thinking about what might happen today. Many a published writer has said it is no use sitting waiting for inspiration. Judy Dalton said, waiting for inspiration is like sitting around waiting to meet people…….it is no use, … Continue reading →

PC, pencil, typewriter……dictaphone……whatever…… Just write. (That is what I am telling myself anyway.)

I like what Alan Ayckbourn, the playwright said – I believe in the right to fail – that has a religious significance for me as well as the obvious. I always used to say to leaders in churches, Have a … Continue reading →

What did you find in the fields today you who have wandered so far away? I found a wind-flower, small and frail, I found a hill that was clad in gorse, a new-built nest, and a streamlet’s source; I saw … Continue reading →

Someone said that artists and writers have a special celebrity status, somehow above others. Nowadays I am not so sure. I would have thought that sportsmen and women held a special place in people’s affections. And what about the mere … Continue reading →

People who write about death call it the ultimate taboo, but it is amazing how many authors writing on aging say that death has to be confronted, before one can truly live. Jilly Cooper, says that sex is a difficult … Continue reading →