It’s Burns night – that’s Robbie Burns the freemason and poet

Maybe it’s because I hail from a different Celtic country, but I feel an odd kinship with the Scots and with Scotland. So I am quite happy to celebrate the birthday of that country’s greatest bard, Robbie Burns, in the company of whisky, haggis, neeps and potatoes.

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From Elton John to Sai Baba

I have been invited to do a local radio interview and it’s one of those shows that have a pool of standard questions that you pick out of a hat. Questions like: What book has had a lasting impression on you? What period of history would you like to have lived through? What’s the favourite [...]

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Young adult fantasy is going well

It seems that just by putting the word ‘naked’ into a title or tag has increased hits to this blog tremendously. I’m glad a few of you out there have managed to find ‘Tall Story’. I’m not sure yet how you go about linking to this blog (if you wanted to) or vice versa. I [...]

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