Initially, I had viewed lockdown as the perfect opportunity to write, write and write. But to be honest, that hasn’t gone entirely to plan!
For a couple of weeks before, all forecasts indicated that summer 2019 would end on the 28th September. That was a gloriously warm and sunny day. And true enough, Sunday 29th began wet, gloomy and chilly. Autumn was here.
Never mind professional cricket and its players exquisite skills and athleticism. We amateurs can do that too! If you were to look down on the United Kingdom from the International Space Station on any given summer’s evening you would see thousands of clusters of white clad beings dotted around green fields, statue still or moving […]
Up until 2018 pretty much all I ever wrote was non-fiction. I must have written some stories at school but all I remember is at one stage being told off for only reading non fiction books. These were likely to have been about birds, horses, skiing, aircraft, cricket and science stuff. Nevertheless my teachers weren’t […]
The last time that I recall having written a short story I was at school. To be precise, I was in the Third Year – which I think is Year 9 in new money – and my English Master was Mr H. I don’t recall what the brief was, but I do recall the general […]