The Bob Who Stole Christmas

Added on 17 September 2009

Hot on the heels of his number one album Together Through Life, Bob Dylan is releasing an album of Christmas standards this festive season. Not unlike mince pies in the supermarkets and Christmas cards in the charity shops, Bob’s Christmas cheer will be with us some time in advance. From ear...

The Ever-Increasing Curse of 2012

Added on 08 September 2009

2012, as a year, will likely come and go, and no one will notice any more than you would during a normal year. Unless the upcoming motion picture event, 2012, starring John Cusack has got it pegged, in which case we’re all going to die. If the world is going to end and we really are all going...

The End of Barney Thomson

Added on 07 September 2009

When I wrote the first Barney Thomson novel, Winston Churchill was Prime Minister, Accrington Stanley were top of the 1st Division and a pint of milk cost £9.25. Now, all these years later, it’s time to wrap Barney up and consign him to the waste bin of crime thriller history. There may ...

A Brief Note On Leaving Poland

Added on 31 July 2009

The Visigoths have been moving house in the last few weeks, which explains why they’ve not been on-line. Even the Visigoths have to pack up their stuff in brown boxes. Four years ago, round about now, we were standing in our first Polish cinema queue. After we’d been in a fairly short q...

Monday 29th June 2009

Added on 29 June 2009

A Dementor At My Table School is winding down to its sorry end. A time of expectation and excitement, when children rejoice, international women frantically home bake, and men sit around discussing matters of great import. (There may have been a bit of gender stereotyping going on in that last sen...