Bournemouth Writing Festival 2025 - Day 3

April 29, 2025 - I have a bromance. There, I've said it. First time ever, a proper bromance. Not your usual 'I wish I was the ever hands...
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Bournemouth Writing Festival 2025 - Day 2

April 26, 2025 - It's 6am and I'm up and about, I ruffle dog number one's ears and realise there is a tick dangling from one, I remove it...
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Bournemouth Writing Festival 2025 - Day 1

April 25, 2025 - Well, here we are again, a year older and another fabulous Bournemouth Writing Festival is well underway. We’ve been a...
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WRITING: Super indulgent story

April 23, 2025 - I know, I know, it's super indulgent writing your memoir. As if anyone is interested in MY LIFE? But I went and bloomin'...
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WRITING: What you uncover, cool eh?

April 23, 2025 - I love this writing lark, it frees your soul from the drudgery of every day life, and Lord knows we need it right now....
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HERITAGE: The Golden Rules of Heritage Digitisation

April 22, 2025 - Be careful, it looks easy, but it's not. Heritage digitisation is a risky business, think of the artefact you are handl...
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LIFE & TIMES: Documenting the final few weeks

April 22, 2025 - There are time in the life of a pro-photographer where you do not charge. Yeah, I know right? I can't believe I wrote t...
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LIFE & TIMES: The Millions Mask March

April 22, 2025 - There were old, there were young, there was fit and there was the infirm, there were those who have never seen trouble i...
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PHOTOGRAPHY: Me and My Selfie Stick

April 22, 2025 - Rome, one of the most fascinating cities in the world, along with New York in my opinion, but certainly the most histori...
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LIFE & TIMES: Let's talk about pronouns

April 22, 2025 - Now listen here all you he/him, she/her, they/them people. Let's get this pronoun argument sorted once and for all. It i...
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PHOTOGRAPHY: What a Great Year

April 22, 2025 - Wow, what a great year. That's what I'd be saying if it were a great year but, of course, how do we judge a good year?...
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PHOTOGRAPHY: A photographic ghost story

April 22, 2025 - A GHOST STORY Let me tell you about the time when I had a tussle with a ghost. Yup that’s right, a real life ghost. I...
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WRITING: The Indestructible Hero

April 21, 2025 - As a thriller writer you have to thrill, it’s in the title and it’s the law. But do I really have to make my hero Indes...
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WRITING: My first children’s book

April 21, 2025 - Who’d have thought it? The magic third book, the one that is supposed to launch a writing career, is a children’s book....
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