The more observant of you may have noticed this blog post is a day or two later than normal. Partly this is because I’ve been a bit unwell and partly it is because I have been very busy making some book promotional videos. Book promotional videos are a relatively new tool in the authors ever… Continue reading Making Book Promo Videos
#Mugabe Falls
It’s always nice to see politicians make an idiot of themselves. Whether it former President George W. Bush or current London Mayor Boris Johnson, if we have to put up with characters then at least we can laugh at them. Of course that is because in democracies we pretty much get to see everything, warts… Continue reading #Mugabe Falls
Charity begins at home but is it now big business?
Every now and then comes a heartening good news story whether it is one of those homeless people who help a passerby only to end up the centre of a massive fundraising operation or the story I wrote about last year about a man who was about to commit suicide only to be talked out… Continue reading Charity begins at home but is it now big business?
Writing For Television – My first TV script from 1996!
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 It’s no longer live but had been archived away somewhere and I was amazed to find my very first television manuscript on the site.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!
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
Stephen Liddell 