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Thank you to Rowan Martell for writing a review of Big Blue Sky in Norfolk magazine last week, and to Keith Morris for putting a review on the Network Norwich […]

Many thanks to Rowan Mantell for a lovely review of my latest book, BIG BLUE SKY – A Celebration of Norfolk, in NORFOLK magazine, where she is features editor. Part of the […]

Fat boy was the name grandson Benjy, gave to one of his sketches for Big Blue Sky. Thank you Benjy, and to the other grandchildren, daughter and friends, who contributed […]

I fell in love with rural Norfolk during my childhood years, and the romance continues today. The countryside, the country people, the history, the accent… It was the immediate post-war […]

A love affair of over 70 years with the county of Norfolk. It is the immediate post-war period, and there are escapades with mates Sludge, Beefy, Shadley and Roger the […]

BIG BLUE SKY should be out soon. In fact, within the next 2 months. No author appeals to everyone, and I am so grateful to those who say nice things […]

How much longer will this book take? I wrote my first book in 3 weeks – but took 3 months to edit it. This book, BIG BLUE SKY – A Celebration […]

My question too! I thought it would be published early this year, but then… No, failure to publish is not due to the pandemic. In fact, if there had not […]

Again, it was winter, some years later, and once more the landscape was a refreshing white. We had cycled, and now we walked. Stealthily. We followed the tracks through the […]

Cleaning Boots – (Excerpt from book BIG BLUE SKY – A Celebration of Norfolk. To be published later this year)  Further language and culture – boots, Grum, June and June, […]