The End of Days (A Barney Thomson Novella)

Added on 05 March 2011

Barney Thomson & The Westminster Christmas Massacre, previously published on this site as a serial in December 2009, is now available to download as a short novel on Amazon Kindle. The title has been changed to The End of Days, as it's not really a Christmas story as such, and for marketing pur...

Man, 46, Changes Light Bulb

Added on 25 February 2011

Details are emerging of astonishing scenes here in the west country yesterday afternoon when a 46 year-old former civil servant apparently changed a light bulb in his Peugeot 307, without taking the aforementioned vehicle into Halfords and getting "a man to do it for him". Lewis K Durrant...

Novel Writing Interrupted

Added on 22 February 2011

School holidays. Day Two. It's quiet. Too quiet. Not much doing. A week in the south of England in February. You make your own fun; however I'm determined not to have any, and kids today have forgotten how to make fun. They need fun electronically delivered to them. Currently, however, they are bo...

Frogs

Added on 11 February 2011

Sadly, looks like spring already. In December it appeared there would be a long winter, but it fizzled sadly out not long after Christmas and has just been mostly mild and bleak and miserable since then. And now spring is here. I can tell spring is here, because the frogs in the pond in the back gar...

State of the Nation

Added on 03 February 2011

It's a bright afternoon in early February. The field where Simon Pegg and Nick Frost chased the swan is covered in seagulls, even though we're not really anywhere near the sea. Feasting on the bloody remains of last night's dead perhaps. I've just finished learning to play Cee-Lo Green's Fuck You ...