My blogs

  • Matt, your cousin is…

    A few years ago, 2002 to be precise, I made a journey into family history with my mother. We were looking into the history of the family on my maternal grandmother’s line. My grandmother was South African, of mixed race, and was born in the Transkei area, south-east Africa. In the early part of the Read more

  • Post trauma stress – the cathartic effect of writing

    It has quite surprised me how many people are now trying out writing as a contributory means to help treat PTSD, post traumatic stress disorder. Questions levelled at me, as to how writing helped me, have prompted me to put this post together. PTSD – the chemistry In examining PTSD, one of the known factors Read more

  • Drummer Lee Rigby – the work of assassins?

    The horrendous actions of Michael Adebowale and Michael Adebolajo when they viciously murdered Royal Fusiliers Drummer, Lee Rigby, have caused a huge amount of public outrage over the crime and appropriate expression of  sympathy to members of our Armed Services. I remember Woolwich Barracks quite well. I attended my first interviews to join the Army Read more

  • Latest reviews

    Only a very select band of writers/authors make a good living from their work. For most authors it is appreciation and feedback that makes the effort worthwhile. When people I have never met or previously heard of post reviews like this it gives a writer a great feeling and the motivation to keep on doing Read more

  • Thank goodness for spell cheque…

    Ode to the Spell Check/cheque Eye halve a spelling chequer It cam with my pea sea It plainly marques four my revue Miss steaks eye kin knot sea. Eye strike a key and type a word And weight four it two say Weather eye am wrong oar write It shows me strait a weigh. As Read more

  • WPC Yvonne Fletcher

    On 17th April 1984 I was a 27 year old advanced car driver working in central London on a police traffic car. On 17th April 1984, my friend WPC Yvonne Fletcher was a 25 year old officer on the Vice Squad at West End Central Police Station. My wife of the time served on this Read more