Can’t wait for Chale Show!

It’s Chale Show this weekend (Aug 1 & 2) and I will be starring at Whitwell Ford’s marquee, where kind-hearted boss Adrian and his team are allowing me to have a display/book-signing etc in aid of the Earl Mountbatten Hospice as part of the (continuing!) fundraising that is the Trans-Siberian Writing Challenge.
I am also hoping [...]

It could be destiny!

I have had a great time at the Isle Of Wight Motor Show this weekend and sold eight books, as well has talking to lots of people and accepting some donations.
Among the people I met was a fascinating chap who flew during the Second World War and was wondering about writing his memoirs.
I am hoping [...]

Looking forward to the IW Motor Show

I am just getting ready for the Isle Of Wight Motor Show this weekend (July 18-19). Visitors will find me in the County Press Shop marquee throughout the show, where I will be collecting donations, signing books and generally talking about my amazing Trans-Siberian Writing Challenge.
The Isle Of Wight Motor Show was the first public [...]

The Hubcaps lunch

The other day I went to the Hubcaps lunch and it was a particularly poignant event. For those who don’t know about Hubcaps, it is a very special organisation open to motoring journalists, captains of the motoring industry, motor racing drivers and others with a motoring connection who like to meet and talk about all [...]

A meeting with Andrew Motion

I went to a writing workshop with Sir Andrew Motion, former poet laureate (1999-2009) at Farringford yesterday, as part of Tennyson’s 200th anniversary celebrations and the centenary of the Poetry Society.
There were tonnes of press there, including BBC Radio Lincolnshire (Tennyson was born in Lincolnshire) and it was being filmed as well.
I had actually taken [...]