A gig announcement… No, nothing to do with Marvel, Sony or my eldest son, Tom. News regarding me I am afraid but big news nonetheless with the announcement of my TED talk being recorded in Amsterdam in early October – a trip which Nikki will accompany me on. And this is doubly handy for me…
Who knew that I might start making the news? Albeit fake news in this instance – as spawned from my last blog, ‘Stormy Waters’ which has elicited many headlines and conclusions and all them, entirely false. As I said in the post – like Manuel in Fawlty Towers (a ref for UK readers only and…
Growing up, like many little boys, I dreamt of being famous. The shear thrill of being recognised everywhere I go. I took my shot as well but never quite made such heights as regular readers of this blog will know. And now that my son is very famous and is constantly recognised, I am more…
Having survived my first ever twitter storm – naturally, I decided that I needed more peril in my life and so I broke one my cardinal rules and took Sam and Paddy quad biking. Some friends of mine invited me and because Nikki had already completed said activity and route yesterday, how could I refuse…
Finally, I have become a “twitter storm…” And for this I must thank something called Stan Twitter – which I don’t know of nor understand but apparently, it is a thing and why after 10,000 retweets, an adverse story about Dominic Holland has been doing the rounds and picked up elsewhere, including the Metro…
By this blog title I am nor referring to its size but its outcome. I have mentioned here before that my carefully laid plans for my most successful book launch to date have been laid bare and hopelessly exposed. And yet I could not be prepared for the ice berg that awaited me on 29th…
Tomorrow is 29th July 2019 – the most important date of my year and one that I selected many many moons ago to give me plenty of time to fully prepare for the launch of my most successful book to date, I,Gabriel. This plan included establishing a successful podcast of both my blog and new…
I was excited to publish the introduction to I,Gabriel this week – until a typo was pointed out to me via twitter. A typo on page… 1 On page blinking ONE! What then lies within? What other horrors or howlers await my readers? Some scorn and derision can still be metered out to self-published authors…
Too often the benchmarks by which a life is gauged are too hollow. Income. Size of house. What car? How much, how big… And whilst our achievements are central, it is the effort and endeavour that we invest in our achievements that is key – because of the hope it creates – and as I…
In the acknowledgements page of I,Gabriel, appears a name you will be unfamiliar with… Raef Meeuwisse. I told you. It’s an unusual name. He is the only Raef and the only Meeuwisse I have ever met – but boy, am I glad that I did – as should be anyone who is looking forward to…