Northern Lights 10th October 2024
Taken around 10p.m. 10th October 2024, Mid-Essex, UK, facing ENE. more…
Ainu Stories Exhibition at Japan House London
An enjoyable visit to Japan House today. It’s always a pleasure to wander around the shop and discover new and unusual objects and materials, admirable for their craftsmanship. A bonus is that until April 2024, there is an exhibition, Ainu Stories, featuring the present-day culture and crafts of the Ainu people from Hokkaido, historically persecuted, […] more…
Mourning Phase Band Recollections
I was asked to provide recollections of the band for the sleeve notes of the album, also called Mourning Phase, to be released on vinyl 30th July 2021 by Seelie Court Records. The band first played at the Railway Hotel, in Southend-on-Sea, England. The Railway remains a respected music venue today for Indie bands. Every […] more…
My New Album, to be Released July 2021
So, fifty years after recording it as a demo disc intended for friends and family, my first album is released on vinyl on 5th April. Band members included my schoolfriend, Mike Conn (a songwriter genius), Joy Sarney, who had a novelty hit in 1977 that reached number 26 in the charts and her husband, Martin. […] more…
The Voynich Manuscript: Decoded After 100 Years
In book 1 of my The Invisible College Trilogy, the main protagonists, teenagers Emily and Peter, discover a ‘book of mysteries’, which contains, amongst other things, a transcription of a document written in an indecipherable text, accompanied by illustrations, also not understood. I based this upon the Voynich manuscript.For over a hundred years the Voynich […] more…
The Flammarion Engraving: Inspiration for The Invisible College Trilogy Covers
The inspiration for the background of the covers of my The Invisible College Trilogy. According to Wikipedia, ‘the Flammarion engraving is a wood engraving by an unknown artist that first appeared in Camille Flammarion’s L’atmosphère: météorologie populaire (1888). The image depicts a man crawling under the edge of the sky, depicted as if it were […] more…
Stationery: An Important Choice for Writers
Although the final product of an author’s work is assembled electronically, pen and paper remain important everyday tools. They provide an immediate, accessible facility to record notes, sketches, dialogue and narrative in a structured or unstructured form, regardless of location and power supply. The decision of which notebooks and pens is something not to be […] more…
Ambient Literature – The Route to a New Reading Experience?
The Ambient Literature project, to quote from its website, is: ‘… a two-year collaboration between UWE Bristol, Bath Spa University, the University of Birmingham and development partners Calvium, Ltd. established to investigate the locational and technological future of the book. Funded through a grant from the Arts and Humanities Research Council, the project is focused […] more…
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