My blogs

  • Celebrity attitude

    A few weeks ago I was contacted though twitter and asked to do something I had never done before and never expected to be asked to do. A young man from Manchester called Marcus is raising money for Help4heroes by travelling around the UK with a t-shirt that he is getting ‘celebrities’ to autograph.  He… Read more

  • A story from Afghanistan

    A padre’s experience. It was the Company Sergeant Major who noticed it first. ‘What’s that?’ He had noticed a loose bit of plastic poking out from a pouch on Curtis’ armour. ‘Just a Bible Sir,’ the youngster from Manchester replied, quickly tucking it in. The Sergeant Major asked to see it, and then explained that… Read more

  • Advance2contact

    This sunday, 25th November, I attended the film premiere of a short film called Advance2contact as a guest of the charity @ourlocalheroes. http://www.ourlocalheroes.org.uk is a small, new charity founded by fellow former Army officer Steve Pearson. The event was well organised by Natasha Kinsey. Advance2 contact (see http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-DYzEVAf8O4 ) is a short film, written and produced… Read more

  • Sgt Dan Nightingale

    Serving SAS sergeant Danny Nightingale has just pleaded guilty, so we are led to believe, to a charge of possessing a Glock 9mm pistol at his home, it having been found when police raided the house looking for evidence of a similar offence by another resident of the house. Today, his wife, Sally, has been… Read more

  • An amusing observation on EU influence

    The European Commission has announced an agreement whereby English will be the official language of the European Union rather than German, which was the other possibility.  As part of the negotiations, the British Government conceded that English spelling had some room for improvement and has accepted a 5- year phase-in plan that would become known… Read more

  • Radio Interview – On the BBC!

    I have a lot to thank twitter for. As a new author I have explored several marketing routes. Facebook was almost useless. It seems more useful for maintaining established contacts rather than making new ones. My attempts to be ‘friends’ with people who also write, who read books and who are ‘in the trade’ sometimes… Read more