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Out of the flat lands and across the moors
Day 10 and 11 - Yorkshire and County Durham Friday saw me leave Lincolnshire for Yorkshire. I've always wanted to cross the Humber Bridge and I was quite happy to pay the 1.50 it costs to get into what for the the sake of my trip counts as Yorkshire. Bear in mind I'm...
East Anglia to Lincolnshire via the smallest county
Day 8 and 9 - Rutland and Lincolnshire I left Happisburg yesterday morning (what day was that?), probably my favouriute site so far, despite the fact that the camp site is slowly falling off a cliff. There was a pub just behind the site and the combination of the wine...
Norfolk and chance
Day 5 to 7 - Cambridgeshire, Suffolk and Norfolk I've not posted for a few days as I've just been so busy. Cambridgeshire (216 miles total), I think that was the day before yesterday gave me a chance to visit Ely Cathedral was was a nice break from the whole process...
Huntingdonshire
Day 4 - 183 miles total Good morning all, just a quick post this morning as I think I have to be off the camp site by 12.00. Currently in Huntingdon, heading for Cambridgeshire today. All electrics fully charged, okay so it's not wild camping but with the stuff I'm...
Power!
Day 3 - Bedfordshire Today has been a day of arrival. I've arrived in a part of the country that is relatively unfamiliar to me, which has been the plan all along. (Does that mean leaving rather than arrival?) After popping home (on the way past Hertfordshire) which...
Six weeks and so little time
Day 2 - Buckinghamshire - 96 total miles Today has been a day of realisations: realisation that I can keep the devices charged if I have the right connectors to plug into caravan hookups, realisations how how expensive that cable is and that the cheaper one might have...
May Morning
Day 1 - Oxfordshire - 43 miles The day started at 6am listening to the choristers in Magdalen Tower in Oxford followed by many Morris Dancers, a brass band playing old blues music and the excellent Hurly Burly Early in the Morning band on Broadstreet. After that the...
Starting a 2.2 Dti Vauxhall Frontera – don’t go to Halfords
In keeping with the spirit of the plans for the great travelogue tour of Englandthe crises keep coming. Some of you might have read about the work I had done on the Truck in recent weeks. I've had a dealer service from the main Vauxhall dealer and I've had the...
One day and counting…
So it's one day to go before the off on the great travelogue tour. It nearly went pear-shaped when I realised that the bank hadn't sent me the new cash card as promised three weeks ago. Fortunately the phone company guy spotted it as I was making sure it wouldn't get...
Nervous times before the off
There is now less than a week to go until I set off for 39 days camping in the 39 historic counties of England. To be honest this last week has had me just a bit terrified, if it’s possible to be a bit terrified. One might imagine that being terrified is an all or...
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I changed my password and still appear to be able to log in.
Where will Mars lead us?
There’s talk in the media about missions to Mars, there has been ever since the moon landings 40 years ago. How would we fund such a trip, would we be able to overcome the technological and psychological obstacles? These are all issues that now have potential...
Countdown to May Morning
Things are moving ahead on the plan to go off around the country to write a Travelogue about spending a night in each of England's 39 historic counties. I'm trying to get everything in place ready to head off into deepest England on May 1st. To that end this is my...
Who would stay at work anyway?
Some weeks ago, in my day job writing for big companies about things I'd rather not write about, an idea was hatched. We had just started a lottery syndicate and the inevitable conversations resulted about what we would do if we won. After someone else's insinuation...
Morgan Bailey interviews some bloke called Jack Barrow
I recently got together with the renowned blogger Morgen Bailey, who writes about up and coming authors. Apparently there's a real possibility her mother is my neighbour. Here's the result.
Mahatma Gandhi – An Autobiography: The Story of My Experiments with Truth
<!--[if !mso]>st1\:*{behavior:url(#ieooui) } <![endif]--> I started reading this because some one Facebook was posting a statement that Gandhi would have supported gun ownership rights in the US after the latest school shooting. I found this so outrageous...
Blood sacrifice, is that what Amazon wants?
Back in December I blogged about how I had abandoned Smashwords in favour of joining Amazon's KDP Select programme for sales of The Hidden Masters and the Unspeakable Evil. If you want to know the details you can read the blog post here but in summary I'd discovered...
The Prophecy of Kinnaird – book review
By Cassandra Bellingham This is a coming of age story where a teenager who feels he doesn't belong in the world discovers his true identity, breaks away from his parents and forges a place in the world. I don't normally read childrens' books as I'm not a child and I...
Viral video for the Hidden Masters novel
About two or three years ago I decided I wanted to create a viral video to promote The Hidden Masters and the Unspeakable Evil. The original plan was to take a scene from the story and make a short film. Ideally the scene selected should show something of the nature...
I’ve sold my soul to the Devil
Last night, in the middle of the night, because I couldn't sleep, I abandoned Smashwords and went over to the evil empire that is Amazon Kindle.I've been on Kindle via Amazon KDP for about a year and I started on Smashwords about a month before that, so I have sales...
The state of ceremonial magic in the twentyfirst century
A few years ago I went to a magical conference having heard about this fantastic event populated by proper magicians in a spectacular location. I say proper magicians because I'm drawing the difference between magicians and the sort of people you get at many other...
Viral video stills for the Hidden Masters and the Unspeakable Evil
Here's the album with the frames for the video And here's the final video
Please write me a bad review, then we’ll know we can trust you
Okay so I have a dilemma. I've been in touch with a magazine asking if they would like a review copy of The Hidden Masters and the Unspeakable Evil. They have written back asking that in return I support their magazine by buying some advertising. (No names no pack...
Sheep shagging – the future of publishing?
I once had a conversation with a guy who runs a small press who told me that reviews make no difference to sales. I can't remember the exact details but his experience was that a book had received a good review in a wide circulation magazine and he'd noticed no...
The Next Big Thing
This is a Wednesday thing, I've no idea why, Wednesday's don't have any intrinsic value, they just are. (If you want to get into the philosophy of Wednesdays then please do so in the comments.) Last Wednesday the very sexy, and equally blonde, Debbie Viggiano posted a...
Top Secret
So I've been down in Rochester for nearly a month now, writing about things that I'd rather not write about. I'd could tell you but I'd have to kill you. Good grief! I'd not realized what an over used phrase that is, still, I think Obama's delivery was the...
Scorpions in the Post Office
I was in the Post Office the other day and I discovered, much to my dismay, that they had rearranged the whole place and introduced a new queuing system. The idea of queuing systems, in themselves, are a bit on an anathema but to be taken by surprise by one is that...
Who are the Hidden Masters and where do they come from?
I had my first media interview on Tuesday evening with Bill Thompson of the thebookcast.com to talk about the recent global release of The Hidden Masters and the Unspeakable Evil. The experience was a little nerve-wracking but not as bad as I might have imagined. (As...
A banker a jouranist and a security guard walk into the Olympic village
We've all been equally horrified with the revelations of phone hacking and bankers' irresponsibility. Hacking celebrity phones was something we didn't get too worked up about over the years, I even remember the story of the phones of the royals being hacked and nobody...
The Hidden Masters and the Unspeakable Evil in paperback
I'm pleased to announce that the new paperback (third) edition of the Hidden Masters and the Unspeakable Evil is now available. This is the book that many of you will have read in the first edition with the green cover or the eBook edition with the black cover. This...