If today's news was fiction, would it get published?
A publishing house emails you offering fat royalties for a novel about conquering the world in a new way, with no military force and without firing a shot, without launching a missile, nor airstriking any world leader.
Gerry shares some smiles for the lockdown
I should be writing a blog and putting it here tonight, but a publisher has just expressed an interest in a manuscript, and as getting published is so difficult these days, I’ve immediately dropped everything to smarten up the story.
Learning to love our l o n g holiday
Ask for a couple of hours off work and it seems you’re asking the boss for a miracle, a more than usually impossible miracle.
A smile or two for a happy hibernation
Just when life, if that's still the word, looks as if we're all going nutty here in Blighty, what with new government telling us how to behave and some of our boys in blue deciding to make the advice law, a reason to smile arrived from across The Pond.
Trying to cope with deadly dribble
Trying to comprehend how a dribble’s weight of virus can terrify not just the populations of the mighty landmasses, the Americas, China and India, but all of the world, really challenges imagination.
