Category: Author Interview
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Something New
There seems to be nothing there, but there are the uncountable billions of past experiences in this or other lives. Then there are the uncountable possibilities of future experiences plus of course the endless experiences occurring now. And out of this nothing something new has to emerge . . .
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Dani Girl
Some Work in Progress There’s always a story. I was sitting in the studio staring at the walls, feeling despondent. There was nothing there. No inspiration – no focus – no purpose. The universe was empty. All I had was some dregs of acrylic paint and 5 or 6 old failed canvases that had been […]
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Whodunnit?
Whodunnit? You just might find out over the next two days. Tomorrow and Saturday, June 1st & 2nd, Cardiff Central Library is the location for the Crime and Coffee festival, a very special gathering to celebrate Crime Writing. Meet some award winning crime writers and find out what makes them tick, how they approach their […]
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Crime and Coffee – Panel Discussion with local Cardiff authors
UPDATE: For 2019’s event click here: This should be interesting . . . As part of the 2 day Crime and Coffee festival hosted by Cardiff Libraries I, along with two other local authors will be discussing our very differing approaches to Crime Writing. My focus will be on my trilogy of stories featuring Detective […]
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Crime and Coffee at Cardiff Central Library
UPDATE: For 2019’s event click here: Coming up: Friday June 1st and Saturday June 2nd 2018, Cardiff Central Library has organised this unique and very special event. I’m very pleased that I was invited to take part and will be appearing as a panellist for the Friday lunchtime event at 1pm. The Festival itself is […]
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An Ordinary Bloke writes about knowing everything
So now you’ve got to the point where you’ve had enough, done enough, know enough. You don’t need to learn any more about any thing. Well, maybe that’s pushing it a bit, that’s a bit too arrogant. You still learn at least one small lesson every day, you will always learn. But all the rest […]
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Lord Harry for the ZX Spectrum
One from the archives – a game I wrote for the Spectrum in 1983 Might do a T Shirt or a painting or both based on this
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Being 66
Today is my 66th birthday. Because of the conditioning we gather from the weird cultural sewer we all bob around in, that feels like something I should be ashamed of. I mean who the hell wants to be 66 years old? That’s old, really old, beyond doubt old. You can kid yourself you still possess […]
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There’s always Hope
This is something I wrote nearly 24 years ago after attending an event at the Hay-On-Wye Festival Of Literature. Saturday May 21, 1994, 12:20pm ‘The First Novel’ A motley gathering of aspiring authors collect together under the grubby canvas of a large marquee. Two hundred or so enthusiastic literary souls eagerly await the arrival of […]
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A Poem and a Painting (and a book)
The full cover of Blodyn – my latest collection of poetry Blodyn the Painting acrylic on board 520mm x 670mm (20″ x 26″), 2001 Blodyn the Book Collected poems 2017 Blodyn the poem You are a creature Petal-haired Mouth-organ lipped Smudge nose askew You are a flower (an open flower) A head on a stalk […]
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An Ordinary Bloke writes about Being Stupid
I’m not stupid. At least that’s what my family, friends, and teachers have always told me. And there is evidence to support this view. For example, I once sat the Mensa IQ test. I think it’s agreed that intelligence is the opposite of stupidity, and I soared to the top of the class in that […]
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An ordinary bloke writes about the Gents
Due to my cisgender conditioning the inside of women’s public toilets are not familiar to me, but as someone who seems to urinate twice as much as I drink I am a frequent visitor to the Gents. Maybe I’m anti-social but I’ve got to the point where I prefer to use a cubicle even if […]
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An ordinary bloke writes about being culled
Have you ever been ‘culled’? Yes, removed from the herd because you are surplus to requirements; more than that – you are persona non grata. I’m talking about social media in general and Facebook in particular. The other day I was browsing my wife’s Facebook page, as you do. After decades of being together we […]
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An Ordinary Bloke Writes About . . .
This may turn into a regular column, maybe I’ll try and do it once a week. To read all the posts tagged with An Ordinary Bloke – Click Here
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Three thoughts
To be a good gardener, sow the seeds with love Believe in what you’re doing, do what you believe in Even the best words dissolve into mush when you read them too many times
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An ordinary bloke writes about ‘Lessons you learn’
An ordinary bloke writes about ‘Lessons you learn’ I was standing in the queue at Iceland, the frozen food store, yesterday. I was clutching a modestly-sized bag (700g) of McCain’s skin-on fries. We were having a dirty burger night and it was the last item on the shopping list. I’d already bought the Linda McCartney […]
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Mid-October Blues
When the fallen leaves remind you that Summer’s gone And the days are getting short and the nights are getting long That’s the time to think about where you’re going to That’s the time to think about what you want to do The winter is coming, and with it a pause There’ll be time to […]
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Helo
I can’t do anything better than anecdotal and observational so I might be wrong and I can’t be bothered to do any real research because if I’m right it would be a waste of time since no one would read this anyway. I mean even if I don’t bother to do any research and this […]
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Facebook and Twitter stole the Internet
Blog: From Web Log, From ‘Logging your thoughts and activities on the World Wide Web’ Once upon a time there was a thing called blogging. It still exists in name of course, for example this website is built on WordPress which is known as a blogging platform. I first started blogging around the turn of […]
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Here, Now, and Here and Now
Some Work in Progress – Early stages (Scroll Down for finished art-icles) Acrylic on canvas – each 60cm x 50cm