Today would've been Dad's 78th birthday. It feels very odd, still, that he's not here to dispense his particular brand of wisdom...

 Well, what an absolute bin fire of a year this has been for my little family. There, we got that out of the way, so I'll also remind my...

My Dad passed away last Saturday evening.  He’d been ill for over eight years and in these last few months we’d begun to prepare ourselves, ...

Well. It really doesn't feel like a whole year since I last sat at my desk tapping out a reading list for this undernourished, somewhat ...

 Another bloody 365 days gone – what the hellpiece?! To be fair, I'm still in some sort of weird time loop that comes from the Chrimbo l...

 Can you believe it’s been almost two years since the doom plague struck? So much for the ‘Roaring Twenties’ we all promised ourselves - it’...

Four years ago - so definitely somewhere in the wilderness years of this blog where all you got was annual book updates - I started getting ...