‘I didn’t mean it to end like this!’ No, I am not thinking of a difficult conversation with someone I didn’t like or an intimate relationship with an ex. No, I am thinking of Book 2, ‘The PI Shop Mourns’. My intention had been to go on writing about Waldo and Jacs’ experiences investigating and …
I am coming out as an author. That was last month’s message. But it is all very well announcing that you are coming out but then you have to face reality. People demand explanations. How long have you been writing? Why did you not feel you could say anything? Surely you could have trusted …
I’m Coming Out Coming out? Are you gay? No. Have you spent a long period in hospital? No Do you mean, you have been doing a stretch at her majesty’s pleasure? No. I am coming out as an author. For ten years I have been learning, quietly. I have been beavering away, sometimes …
I haven’t changed a lot. I am still perky. In case you are confused, I am the one on the right, my brothers being the others boys sitting on the canon. They are the ones without an ice cream. I believe it was my birthday. I was born just after World War II. If you …
A rather flattering photo, I’m afraid. I must have destroyed the others.I managed to survive two years as a teacher but I knew it wasn’t for me. I used my educational qualifications to lever my way into the NHS and, thanks to many re-organisations – the NHS is always being reorganised – ended being in …
Retirement was a wonderful gift. I was healthy, reasonably well-off, and with the freedom to choose what I wanted to do. I tried five different activities. Sculpture – I struggled to find the right medium and to remain motivated; mathematics – I loved maths but realised that creative mathematics is a young persons’ game; saxophone …