At my chemo session the other day, I was all ears at the commotion going on in the next room. Mine was a four-hour chemo drip session. I felt like a plastic container for a Johnson & Johnson product. But while this […]
The Brittle Sea is part of a trilogy and is about love, hope, mental health, and a determination to overcome adversity. Book 1 opens with the main female character, young Magda Asparov. Her father has arranged for her to marry wealthy New […]
Aspects of History: Technology and the Titanic Ned Parfett, the young lad shown in the image above, was a 15-year-old newspaper seller in London. When he was handed copies of the Evening News to sell, he also received a large poster that […]
Walking Away from Midnight Click on #WalkingAwayFromMidnight to see all available extracts The Man in Black The lane running alongside the Fordham house, close to Roc la Tour, led south to Tournavaux or west to Monthermé in the Ardennes Forest. It […]
Walking Away from Midnight Click on #WalkingAwayFromMidnight to see all available extracts Ouvrage Schoenenbourg At the fortified outpost of Ouvrage Schoenenbourg, part of the fortifications that made up the Maginot Line, the Germans were playing with Capitaine Bertold’s small company of […]
I’ve lived in Cyprus for fourteen years, moving to here from England in 2008. Up until last night I had experienced one meze (a meal of many parts found all around the Mediterranean Sea) and that was a marathon meal. It was […]
Cows do it.Pigs do it.Even men in silly wigs do it,let’s do it, let’s gas it off. If farting’s good enough for Geoffrey Chaucer (he used the word in his writing) then it’s good enough for me. A fart is a fart, […]
Treasonist: Someone who betrays his country by committing treason. Throughout history there have been many instances of men and women who commit acts of treason against the country of their birth or their adoptive country. In the fledgling United States of America […]
Tomorrow is chemo day, again. I’m under no illusions, it’s going to give me a wide-ranging set of ups and downs for the next few days. I’m used to it. What I’ve been finding difficult is the lack of information about how […]
The title of this post is innocent, but the content behind the subject matter is palpably sinister. I of course refer to that Mediterranean meal that is designed to pounce on unsuspecting and carefree travellers. If you have no idea what a […]