Leonardo da Vinci First of all it's great that so many people read this; thank you. I only have a few registered 'followers' but...

I might have said this on here before but most Sunday mornings I go to the beach for a bike ride and have breakfast at The Fig Tree ; by the...

Fame? Now what is it? Can you lead a normal life whilst being famous? I think you can; when I read about the royal family and the normality ...

Florencio Avalos (above) alpha male? There are few secular miracles in life and one of them is child birth; well not necessarily human chil...

It was John Lennon's birthday on Saturday – the 9th – he would have been 70 years of age; hard to believe. We were served with a lot of ...

Dun Laoghaire - above; Hollyhead - below Hey my novel is available in the UK from Amazon UK in paperback http://tiny.cc/lgtaf and it'll...

I was thinking the other day of the times I've been up the creak without a paddle; you know stranded with no hope of getting home. I rem...

My friends admonish me for being so pedantic about the differences in English between the United States and the British Isles. I say the Bri...

If there was one thing Marlon Brando was right about it was that his favourite actor was Tony Curtis. He said he was the only actor who coul...

The day before yesterday, Monday 27th September is to go down in the history of Los Angeles as the hottest day ever – 113 degrees Fahrenheit...

Before I start to write this post there is a chance that I might say the 'F' word; I did mention this when I extended my mailing lis...

Now what does socialism have to do with Michael O'Leary (above) of Ryanair? Absolutely nothing. Michael O'Leary is a genius of an en...

A lot of people had asked but I'm pleased to report a happy ending to the missing/broken guitar saga – but not without a very long phone...

Here we are back in our own beds; since we left Scotland we haven't slept in the same bed for more than a few days running. Here we are ...

That building, above, is the Writer's Museum where a friend I got to know in Edinburgh, Allan Foster, starts a Literary Pub Crawl twice ...

This will finish off the Edinburgh blog; that bus above, as you can see, is the number 27. This bus is a wonderful bus; it runs every 10 mi...

Now we have finished in Edinburgh for another year and what a time it was; it was a wonderful time we had and now we are in Suffolk. I drove...

So far in Edinburgh, since we arrived, we have only seen two days without rain. Ordinarily I don't care whether it rains or not but if I...