So, I was idly scrolling my FB feed when yet another ad popped up to drive me to distraction. Because guitars are my fatal attraction, this one caught my attention. Not that it was any old guitar, oh no, not this 'un. This specimen was little more than a fretboard attached to a thin-line body [...]
Another for the book shelf
onFollowing the release of my second novel in August 2022, the book of short stories titled Old Ned's Secret, I'm proud to announce the publication of my third work of fiction. Sure, in relative quick succession but really, I'm not a prolific writer frantically pounding the keyboard into the small hours of every waking day. [...]
Drum roll, please …
onIt's been a while since publishing my first novel, The Tramp, and music CD, The Tramp: The Music of Robert Aitken, in 2017, yet I've not dawdled that much, really ... I'm finishing up a full length, 460-odd page psychological thriller waiting for a final read through, plus another tale set in the 10th century [...]
A long time between drinks
onI haven't spoken for a while. Busy times at work, rest and play. Being a sole operator, there are no knock on / knock off times, just a need to rationalise each project and work to the demands of processes and deadlines. That hasn't stopped me from working on renovation and reparation projects at home. [...]
A long distance wedding performance.
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… or Pandemic Schmandemic#2 This post follows Pandemic Schmandemic#1 (check the link if you want to know what happened before). Once upon a time several decades ago, my sister told me of an early childhood memory of me playing the theme tune to a children’s television show on my brother’s guitar (Pat had set it [...]
Tiger Dreaming 