Jackscott

LATEST ARTICLES ( 1109 )

• An Irish National Treasure

  

  The annual Norfolk and Norwich Festival is in full swing right now, an eclectic mix of the performing arts in venues right across the city. Read more

  Posted on 22 May 2015 DIARIES, EXPAT, SELF EXPRESSION

• Game of Chance

  

  The magnificent Jay Artale of Roving Jay fame is offering a free copy of Turkey Street in a sweepstake hosted on her Bodrum Peninsula Travel Guide site. This... Read more

  Posted on 19 May 2015 DIARIES, EXPAT, SELF EXPRESSION

• Turkey Street is Open for Business

  

  Turkey Street is an ancient road ‘… just wide enough for two emaciated camels to pass each other unhindered’. Now you can take a stroll along its winding path... Read more

  Posted on 18 May 2015 DIARIES, EXPAT, SELF EXPRESSION

• IDAHO Day

  

  Jack Scott:To mark today’s IDAHOT Day, I’m reblogging a post I wrote back in 2014 about IDAHO Day (the T got added a year later to acknowledge the challenges... Read more

  Posted on 17 May 2015 DIARIES, EXPAT, SELF EXPRESSION

• Top of the Travel Pops

  

  Three days before the official publication of Turkey Street, the pre-released Kindle edition hit the top stop on Amazon in Middle Eastern Travel (as well as No ... Read more

  Posted on 15 May 2015 DIARIES, EXPAT, SELF EXPRESSION

• Turkey Street Uncovered

  

  300,000 characters, 65,000 words, 350 pages, near-divorce bust-ups, seconds out sulks down the pub, slammed doors, never-ending re-writes and entire scenes... Read more

  Posted on 13 May 2015 DIARIES, EXPAT, SELF EXPRESSION

• Pan’s People

  

  Norwich is blessed with an embarrassment of busking richness from the totally bonkers (the senior citizen who makes Rod Hull and Emu look positively benign) to... Read more

  Posted on 08 May 2015 DIARIES, EXPAT, SELF EXPRESSION

• The Whole Barry Manilow

  

  Since 2015 promises new ventures, adventures and a sequel book, I decided it was high time Perking the Pansies got a face lift. I don’t mean a little nip here, ... Read more

  Posted on 03 May 2015 DIARIES, EXPAT, SELF EXPRESSION

• A Life of Poverty and Chastity

  

  A couple of old London reprobates decided to slum it in the shires for the day, joining us for a belated celebration of our wedding anniversary. Happily, the su... Read more

  Posted on 28 April 2015 DIARIES, EXPAT, SELF EXPRESSION

• No Purchase Necessary

  

  To celebrate the launch of Summertime Publishing’s little sister, Springtime Books, we’ve got a few paperbacks to give away on Goodreads, the web’s most... Read more

  Posted on 23 April 2015 DIARIES, EXPAT, SELF EXPRESSION

• Springtime Has Sprung

  

  In my last post, I took a meander down memory lane and hinted that change was afoot. Well, my news is that I’m now a publisher, a bone fide purveyor of the... Read more

  Posted on 18 April 2015 DIARIES, EXPAT, SELF EXPRESSION

• Evolution

  

  I’ve always worked, even in the loosest sense of the word. When my dear old dad popped his clogs way too early, my mother lost her husband, her livelihood and... Read more

  Posted on 15 April 2015 DIARIES, EXPAT, SELF EXPRESSION

• Now That’s What I Call Really Old

  

  This blogging lark is a bit of a hit and miss affair. Who knows the right formula to blast a post into orbit and keep it there? Certainly not me. Read more

  Posted on 10 April 2015 DIARIES, EXPAT, SELF EXPRESSION

• Happy Anniversary, Liam

  

  It’s our wedding anniversary today. Unlike the resurrection of Christ, it’s not a moveable feast. We celebrated our nuptials a day early with a boozy lunch at... Read more

  Posted on 05 April 2015 DIARIES, EXPAT, SELF EXPRESSION

• Sing, Little Birdie

  

  Liam hyperventilated at the prospect of watching Eurovision’s Greatest Hits, an extravaganza beamed across Europe by the BBC to celebrate the sixtieth... Read more

  Posted on 04 April 2015 DIARIES, EXPAT, SELF EXPRESSION

• I Could Murder a Pint

  

  Norwich is blessed with a wealth of hostelries to quench the thirst and chew the cud, but few are as famous as the Gardener’s Arms on Timberhill, one of the las... Read more

  Posted on 29 March 2015 DIARIES, EXPAT, SELF EXPRESSION

• Jack the Lab Rat

  

  With Norwich covered in a blanket of low grey cloud, the much anticipated solar eclipse was a bit of a damp squib – more like God just dimmed the lights than a... Read more

  Posted on 25 March 2015 DIARIES, EXPAT, SELF EXPRESSION

• Chasing the Dragon

  

  In 2013, we had gorillas in our midst. Last year it was the elephant parade and for 2015 it’s Go Go Dragons. Expect to chase the technicolor creatures along... Read more

  Posted on 19 March 2015 DIARIES, EXPAT, SELF EXPRESSION

• Through the Round Window

  

  For weeks now, a flock of starlings has been ebbing and flowing in the skies above Norwich. Every evening, at dusk. I took a few snaps from the loft with the... Read more

  Posted on 14 March 2015 DIARIES, EXPAT, SELF EXPRESSION

• Bewitched

  

  A damp and dingy Saturday afternoon saw us at the Maddermarket Theatre for an am-dram matinee courtesy of the Norwich Players. We were Maddermarket virgins and ... Read more

  Posted on 09 March 2015 DIARIES, EXPAT, SELF EXPRESSION