Janet and John on Holidays: Ch 1 – The First Big Bang
So –Janet and John take a holiday (vacation for my American friends) and where do we go? The middle of nowhere of course…. But not just any nowhere. A radioactive nowhere…
Category: My travels
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The accidental knitter
A funny thing happened a couple of months ago – I became a knitter. It started like this…. I was in Canada, looking for a birthday present for a friend of mine…
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Some things you never grow out of…
I’m currently writing a section of my new book set at an outback race meeting, and a thought occurred to me… every book I’ve written has horses in it somewhere. I decided…
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A short stop in the Twilight Zone.
On a weekend excursion into upstate New York, we stopped for lunch at a small town called Binghamton. It was an unremarkable town, in which we ate a reasonable but unremarkable lunch.…
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Under Northern Lights
Imagine sitting in a tiny cottage, snowbound in a winter where the sun never peeks over the horizon – and a book lets you escape into the sweltering heat of the…
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Not getting arrested is fun too…
…or what I did on my vacation, Part 2 I’ve always found the story of the Manhattan project fascinating – this ultra-secret project developed on an isolated plateau in New Mexico. It…
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What I did on my vacation – Part 1.
My head is full of the strangest facts – and it’s all my parents’ fault. When I was a kid, they brought a never-ending stream of books into the house. The types…
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There IS such a thing as a free lunch..
The other day, webmaster John and I were walking around the Rockefeller Centre, looking for a restaurant. We were planning to take friends from the UK to dinner, before going to…