Yesterday whilst looking for something else on the internet, I came across a 20 year-old website that I had created. It’s no longer live but had been archived away somewhere and I was amazed to find my very first television manuscript on the site. This was rather fortuitous as the original files are on computers… Continue reading Writing For Television – My first TV script from 1996!
Month: January 2015
A weekend in Ghent
I spent the last 3 days in the Belgium city of Ghent having secured a bargain return trip on the Eurostar from London and taken advantage of near empty hotels almost giving their rooms away. I always love going on the Eurostar and not just because I hate flying. It’s just such fun to go… Continue reading A weekend in Ghent
We’re all going on a summer holiday
It’s that time of year where many of us are bombarded with advertisements urging us to make bookings for our summer holidays. For us it is the same routine most years with November to February mapping out great big ambitious trips where money and time is of little consequence before settling back for something a… Continue reading We’re all going on a summer holiday
The Death of the music scene in London
I’ve written before on the various building and engineering projects that are transforming many cities in Britain and London in particularly. In the grand scheme of things, many of these obviously offer huge improvements bringing 20th and often 19th century infrastructure into the new millennia. However increasingly it is becoming obvious that all is not… Continue reading The Death of the music scene in London
Not Now Bernard
In the 2.5 years that we have opened our house up on Airbnb, we have had the opportunity to meet a wide range of interesting people that we would never have the chance of meeting in everyday life. From actors to heart surgeons and engineers to spiritualists and people as far away from London as… Continue reading Not Now Bernard
The Fox News Guide To Britain
Following the sad events in Paris last week, an alleged terrorist expert by the name of Steven Emerson appeared on Fox News over the weekend and proclaimed that there were areas of London that had Muslim gangs patrolling the streets to enforce an Islamic dress-code as well as incredibly writing off entire cities such as Birmingham as… Continue reading The Fox News Guide To Britain
I Salute You – The History of Saluting
Saluting is primarily but not exclusively a military sign of respect with a very long history. This week it hit the news that some senior officers have become upset as recruits are not showing them the respect they are due and recently none other than President Obama have been criticised for taking saluting seriously and… Continue reading I Salute You – The History of Saluting
New Year, New Book – The Silence Fell
I don’t really set New Year Resolutions but 2014 seemed to be an ever increasingly good year both for my writing and for my guided tours business. I spent much of the holiday period on mapping things out for the future; adding new tours to my official and partnered websites and thinking of ways to… Continue reading New Year, New Book – The Silence Fell
The Lost Treasures of Bad King John (plus other treasures both found and missing).
Have you ever wanted to get rich quick? Long before Nigerian spammers were in on the act there was the art of metal-detecting. Often metal-detecting enthusiasts are derided as being a little bit odd and depicted as spending their lives wondering around barren fields with not much to show for it but then one of them… Continue reading The Lost Treasures of Bad King John (plus other treasures both found and missing).
Stephen Liddell 