A word can change a mind. A sentence can change a life. A book can change the world.
Once upon a time, my favourite food wasn’t strictly speaking a food you would associate with nourishment. It wasn’t something you would eat to stay alive, let’s put it that way. My favourite food was a sweet, liquorice. There, my secret is out. But not just any old Liquorice, it had to be Bassets Liquorice…
If it had not been for technology, I wouldn’t be sitting here today, typing this blog post, and, I wouldn’t have a blog let alone an internet connection. It’s technology that allows us to do the things we love best as indie authors, namely, to write. True enough we could all go back to typing,…
It was with a heavy heart that I pulled the vet’s door closed and stood in the street trying hard not to cry. Willpower held me together, then I made the fatal mistake of looking down at my left hand. Her lead was there, curled around my fingers, dirty with mud from the last time…
Having bought three new PCs about three months ago it was hard to understand why two of them were whisper quiet and yet the third, mine as it turns out, was quite loud. Well, this afternoon I had the chance to find out why. I switched it on as normal and nothing happened. The power…
My ten-year-old nephew looked up at me and frowned. The frown said it all, this, to him, was a serious subject.“Space is between the stars,” I said.“Like the space between my dad’s ears?”“What do you mean?” I asked, smiling at the term his mother used to describe her layabout husband.“Mom says my dad’s useless, there’s…
On the 6th of June 2002, a mid-air explosion occurred in an area between Cyprus, Crete, and Libya. The explosion released energy comparable to a small nuclear weapon. It became known as the Eastern Mediterranean Event and at the time, set alarm bells ringing around the world. The event was during the 2001-2002 India and…
A few years ago, I reported on a fire near my then home. In the summer fires are a big, and sometimes deadly issue in Cyprus. Last year we had fires being set deliberately in this area and for several weeks the fires came thick and fast, one after the other. Most days we heard…
Living in Cyprus, where we experience earthquakes every now and then, you would have expected that in fourteen years I would have noticed one or two. Well, unfortunately (don’t I mean fortunately) that was not the case. I tended to miss them, not once but multiple times, until recently. The last one was while we…
In my working life with computers designing software and designing logos for t-shirts, or in my retirement, writing novels and stories, worrying about the word count, or simply reading a book on a tablet, wondering how many more pages to go before I get to the end of the book, numbers play a significant role…
I like to write, as some of you may have noticed. But I did something last year, a little experiment, and wrote an eBook about what I do for a living. The book is about how we started our personalised embroidery and printing business in the UK and then moved it to Cyprus. It was…
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