Perspectives on our coastal towns. The English town of Weymouth is currently courting controversy as a result of a local photographer’s twitter post and his remarks of the shabby state of some areas. As a resident of the area I can concur with some of the views but this is a malaise of the British… Read More »
Why do we pick who/what we read? This is not the obvious read/not read question but why do we select the books we read? I have recently been reading a lot of books for the first time that my wife had previously bought. These books are still in the crime fiction genre I frequently read… Read More »
2017 – Happy New Year This first blog post of 2017 was to have begun, as it does in the heading, by wishing readers a Happy New Year for 2017 and then continuing solely with this content about my writing. However, as you will see later, computing issues continue to aggravate hence the additional material… Read More »
Year end reflection 2016 has been a memorable year, including my graduation with a BA in Communication and Media from Bournemouth University. As I type this year-end reflection all I can really say is that it has been a very busy year in just about every other way too, a veritable smorgasbord of events and activities… Read More »
A pot pourri for November November for me is always a strange month so a pot pourri of miscellany for this blog entry. This year the month has been even stranger than usual due to dealing with the aftermath of a broken central heating boiler at my mother’s house. The month marks the true onset… Read More »
1987; the year we began When I began this task of website conversion from hand coded pages into contemporary WordPress format it struck me just how far on the industry has come from the first iteration of the Island-Publishing business. Back in those days I had been using computers since 1981 and extremely primitive models… Read More »
Trains Trains are an interest, last week I even rode on one just like that pictured above. For people who know me well, or sometimes visit this blog, that probably seems an obvious statement. I am PRO for a railway society (The SLS) and manage the website for two other rail related groups so train… Read More »
RBS and Brexit Why the simplicity on this important issue? Watching the recent news story coverage of RBS and Brexit I felt that most journalists got it wrong. In simplistically reporting this as a short-term item, they seriously missed the point. I voted remain and will do so again if we get a second chance… Read More »
General status update A general status update as it has been a while since I posted anything here so time to get back onto the blogging trail. It has been busy summer including helping both my daughters make family house moves, two brief holiday breaks, one in the Lake District and a second in Scotland… Read More »
WCRC sentencing outcome The court cases following the incident at Wootton Bassett in 2015 are now resolved and sentences issued. Both parties pleaded guilty at Swindon Crown Court yesterday. Glad to see the prison sentence was suspended. Link to the Office of Rail and Road (ORR) official statement. BBC Press News report on the outcome.… Read More »