500 posts.  Who’d have thought it, eh? When I hit 400 posts last year I blogged about it and did a little run-down of what had happened t...

My family and friends will attest to the fact that I'm something of a documentarian, especially in the sense of taking lots of photograp...

Sometimes, when Dude asks me a question (and he asks lots), I'm tempted to answer like Calvin's dad. Not all the time, obviousl...

Dude & I will be attending this on Saturday and we're both really looking forward to it. Fox Spirit head honcho Adele Wearing wi...

...to my wonderful Dad. Lilford Park, March 1974 - Dad, me and TJ Taken on the same day out as the picture I used for Mothers Day

When I was growing up, in the 70s and 80s, most towns had a cinema and multiplexes hadn’t yet invaded (the first one I knew of was The Point...

In 1992, I met a girl called Alison and we became friends, though I fancied her pretty much from the start.  On June 6th we arranged to go t...

Since 2014 marks the fiftieth anniversary of The Three Investigators being published, I thought it’d be enjoyable to re-read and compile my ...

Johnny Mains is a force to be reckoned with in the horror genre and that is only going to increase with his editorship of Salt Publishing’s...

"When you see a bee on the ground that isn’t moving, it’s not necessarily dead, it’s probably just dead tired from carrying lots of...