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…
“…imagine a book club for blokes?” A punch-line from my show Eclipsed – performed two years ago at the Edinburgh festival. It got a big laugh each night but out of context and without its set-up, I am conscious that it won’t raise even a smile here in print. A brave way then to begin…
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…
Hello all, This new site has been a while coming and many glitches along the way – and so been off-line and not blogging for a week or so. How have you coped? (He asks, unrealistically…) I am rushing to a new material gig now – but I have much to write about and share,…
In 2010, I visited New York with Tom because he had been cast in a film called, The Impossible – and the story of Eclipsed was already fully formed in my mind whatever happened to my eldest son from here-on-in. As well as meeting the director and his co-stars, Ewan MacGregor and Naomi Watts (I…
This week, the true horror of the word impotence struck me. I refer not to any marital failings but an equally grave scenario – my website went down. Anyone self-employed and with clobber to sell is completely beholden to the nerds who now run our world. On this subject – exciting news – a new…
Surprises run long and deep in the Holland family. Tom becoming Spider-Man and indeed a movie star will probably remain the biggest surprise of all – eclipsing even the surprise of my own failing to reach the dizzy heights… I must write this in to a story one day! But on a smaller scale too,…
An audition yesterday for Audible to become a book narrator which was different and exciting. Especially so since they asked me to bring along two pieces to read – a fiction and non-fiction and ‘it should be writing that I feel comfortable reading in my own voice.’ My advantage being that I have lots of…
I say at the end of Eclipsed, how grateful I am to anyone kind enough to review my book/s on-line – and so on a cold Monday morning in London, seeing this review of Eclipsed was very welcome indeed. Thank you, Romany. Honest, heartwarming and hopeful. Couldn’t put it down. 8 March 2019 Format: Paperback…
