Get Up Offa That Thing

by | Feb 1, 2019 | 0 comments

It sometimes feels like there’s a ongoing argument in our house that involves Shoelace and/or me banging on to the girls that they really ought to put their phones down at least once a fortnight and look up. It doesn’t have to be their iPhones (and anyone...

Strachan

by | Jan 31, 2019 | 0 comments

You might have noticed that the titles of my past three posts have been song titles. It’s an idea I used for Mr Lizard and wanted to use again as I tell the story of how I got to where I am and how I’m putting my next book together, while hopefully...

Tick Tock

by | Jan 30, 2019 | 0 comments

Hurry up and do your thing: you’ll be holding the match with the flame at your fingertips before you know it and you haven’t even lit the candle yet. Watching a programme about Billy Connolly recently increased my sense of urgency. Connolly has Parkinson’s...

Passion

by | Jan 29, 2019 | 0 comments

Having concluded that consigning The Inted Manifesto was not a waste of time and effort, I’m thinking about the parts of that overly humongous project that are worth salvaging and developing. Possibly the biggest is the driver that got me to the point where...

What a Waste

by | Jan 28, 2019 | 0 comments

I’ve started to tweak this site to reflect the shift of focus that I wrote about here. I still intend to write my next book by this summer but it won’t be called The Inted Manifesto. I’ve got limited time, energy and resources so the big campaign...