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LATEST ARTICLES ( 49 )

• The Real Indiana Jones Did Not Follow a Career

  

  Henry Stanley is purported to be one of the main inspirations for the Indiana Jones character. Stanley was a writer and explorer who followed his passions and... Read more

  Posted on 09 May 2014 BOOKS, CULTURE

• George Orwell’s Room 101

  Does any one remember the BBC television series Room 101? The programme ran from 1994 to 2007 and people could rant about the various things that pissed them of... Read more

  Posted on 21 March 2014 BOOKS, CULTURE

• Book Launch of ‘Emma’

  I was recently invited to a friend’s book launch of her new book ‘Emma’, second part of a trilogy set in the early 1900′s along the Devon coastline. The life... Read more

  Posted on 10 February 2014 BOOKS, CULTURE

• Hogmanay 2014 & The Town Below Edinburgh!

  The end of 2014 was highlighted by a trip to Edinburgh to count down midnight at Edinburghs Hogmanay! I have been visiting Edinburgh since I was 20 years old an... Read more

  Posted on 28 January 2014 BOOKS, CULTURE

• The Grass is Singing Farewell to Doris Lessing

  Doris Lessing died at 94 years old on 17th November 2013. Upon being given the Nobel prize for literature in 2007 when Doris was 88 years old this tough old bir... Read more

  Posted on 09 January 2014 BOOKS, CULTURE

• San Marino, Italy

  

  Europe boasts an array of stunning Microstates that are fascinating to visit. There is Andorra between France and Spain, Liechtenstein in the South of Germany,... Read more

  Posted on 19 December 2013 BOOKS, CULTURE

• Long Walk to Freedom

  My iPhone, which I usually leave on silent during the night, went ping in the early hours of the morning. A text from the BBC app letting me know that Nelson... Read more

  Posted on 06 December 2013 BOOKS, CULTURE

• The Fifth Wave Inside of Us

  “Sometimes you tell yourself that you have a choice, but really you don’t have a choice! Just because there are alternatives doesn’t mean they apply to you. Read more

  Posted on 19 November 2013 BOOKS, CULTURE

• An Honest Man

  “He has the most who is most content with the least”DiogenesHis Point of View:From the top of the stone steps he can look out at the people below him in the... Read more

  Posted on 08 November 2013 BOOKS, CULTURE

• The Reluctant Person!

  The Reluctant Fundamentalist is a dark, thought-provoking and intelligent novel, it has been a long time since I had a dictionary by my side when I read a book. Read more

  Posted on 24 September 2013 BOOKS, CULTURE

• Rome, Italy

  

  I make it a policy when I go to a new country to experience 3 things; the post office, a bus and the train. With this policy I have found that it is amazing wha... Read more

  Posted on 16 September 2013 DESTINATIONS, TRAVEL

• The Harry Potter Experience!

  

  If you are in any way a fan of J.K Rowling’s Harry Potter books or enjoyed the films then the brand new exhibition dedicated to everything Potter is for you. Read more

  Posted on 23 August 2013 BOOKS, CULTURE

• How Often Do We Really Experience Every Moment, to Live and Die Every Day?

  “Once more into the fray,into the greatest fight I’ll ever know.Live and die on this day”Ian Mackenzie Jeffers; Ghost Walker Based on a short story by Ian... Read more

  Posted on 15 July 2013 BOOKS, CULTURE

• What 5 People Shaped Your Life?

  OK, don’t go straight to the obvious here, yes we all know that our Mum’s and Dad’s had a powerful influence, positive and negative, on all of us as we grew up. Read more

  Posted on 01 July 2013 SELF EXPRESSION

• A Thousand Splendid Suns Under One Sky?

  Good writers like Khaled Hosseini always explain the motivations of the antagonists in the story. No one is purely evil or purely good and the antagonists... Read more

  Posted on 12 June 2013 BOOKS, CULTURE

• Lisey’s Story; Your Writer’s Story

  “There are some things one simply does not speak about, not even among the various versions of one’s self”Stephen King, Lisey’s StoryIn an interview in 1993... Read more

  Posted on 13 May 2013 BOOKS, CULTURE

• East & West Looe, Cornwall

  

  Looe is a pretty little fishing port and coastal town in Southeast Cornwall, divided in two by the river Looe into East and West Looe and connected by a bridge. Read more

  Posted on 30 April 2013 TRAVEL

• Luang Prabang, Lao (December 2012)

  

  From Vang Vieng I took the VIP Bus to Luang Prabang, the old royal capital of Lao. Although, I’m not so sure what was so VIP about it! The bus was old and... Read more

  Posted on 22 April 2013 TRAVEL

• Climbing St Michael’s Mount with the Cornish Giant Cormoran

  

  Separated from the mainland by a causeway that is impassable to walk in high tide, St Michael’s Mount has been in the St Aubyn family for generations and is... Read more

  Posted on 25 March 2013 DESTINATIONS, TRAVEL

• Following Your Dreams with the Alchemist

  I have often found that I read a book and notice a particular quote in the book that seems to fit my life and how I am feeling perfectly at that time. Read more

  Posted on 11 March 2013 BOOKS, CULTURE