On the first day of Christmas I took to bed with me The Lord Montague of Beulieau There’ll be more of that song but for now… here is a Christmas tale that’s not in any book anywhere. Raw first draft … Continue reading
I’m having a subdued Christmas. If you’ve been reading for a while, you’ll know that my father died suddenly on February 14th this year. Well, his brother, my uncle and godfather, died in the early hours of Christmas eve. Yes, … Continue reading
Busy here, now five full books going through the process and also the Christmas anthology. Still I managed to get started on a tale for Christmas myself. This one will form part of Panoptica and fits between ‘For Whom the … Continue reading
Track and trace apps (I don’t have one, I don’t go to anywhere that requires one), compulsory masks that make facial recognition cameras futile (you’ll soon be required to be RFID chipped and/or wear a barcode so they can see … Continue reading
Something has been niggling at the back of my mind for some time now. It came into focus when I saw one of the ‘senseless violence’ videos circulating recently. I don’t mean the feral protestors. Of course everyone was videoing … Continue reading
Here it comes, and I haven’t even finished the book yet. So here’s a bit of backstory as to how Panoptica came/is coming to be. The genderless society was a given. 23-David and 81-Mohammed covered that. The method to achieve … Continue reading
Yesterday I bought petrol. I filled the car, it had used half a tank, and loaded a 25 litre jerrycan for the mowers. Yes, they will need that much, cutting it all means filling the mower tank at least eight … Continue reading
Time for the annual jolly Christmas tale, although these aren’t all that jolly if I’m honest. If you have’t been here before you might want to catch up on the previous tales since this one carries on from them. The … Continue reading
A tale of Christmas yet to come. If you’re new here you’ll need to catch up on where this story came from. First this one, then this one. Those two now appear in Underdog Anthologies 4 and 5, and the … Continue reading
I never thought of myself as a workaholic. My natural state is lethargic, idle and usually a little bit drunk. Well, no time for that these days! I off-roaded the old car in December 2016 when I got the ‘new’ … Continue reading
