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Posted on 24 May 2013 07:01
Hunt, the Health Minister is now speaking out and proclaiming from the rooftops that GP’s should now shoulder the burden of out-of-hours patient care. Unusually, he’s talking a little sense in amongst the rhetoric and garbage we usually hear from politicians. In 2004, the Labour government in a bid to ruin doctors’status forced an hours-based contract on GPs and hospital consultants. We didn’t like it because we knew it made us into clocking in and clocking out ‘health-care workers’. That was what they wanted. |
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Posted on 21 May 2013 16:31
I’ve just startedDan Brown’s ‘Inferno’. I’ve seen the previous Dan brown movies but never read his books. I tried once with the first one but found I disliked the writing style so much I never finished the book. This time because of the great accolades the book has received, I became curious to see if his style of writing might have changed. Afraid I still don’t like the writing. It makes my fingers itch to edit – I could cut maybe half the book and not lose a second of the action. |
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Posted on 05 May 2013 17:40
With all the interest in my new book‘THE FAT CHEF’I figured I’d show a little food enthusiasm myself. We eat out fairly regularlyand so I know a few restaurants in my area of Middlesbrough and North Yorkshire and will recommend a couple you may or may not know about. If you ever visit up here, then they will be worth a visit. I would put them in three ranges, Cheap and Cheerful, moderately expensive and pricey. Click on the links to view their menus but not on an empty stomach! First off there is ‘ |
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Posted on 20 April 2013 10:23
The Fat Chefis now available on Amazon both as Kindle and paperback. Maybe an audiobook soon too! So what's all the fuss about - just a book eh? Well, no not just a book. It's a character - Raoul Verney Executive Head Chef of L'hotel Metro a fictional top Paris hotel commandeered by the Germans in 1940. Character is plot and in this book Raoul is a lot of plot - huge in fact. There are also some recipes. Why? How could one write about a chef and not show him cooking? He cooks with passion - |
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Posted on 30 March 2013 08:52
 Well here it is at last! My fourth book in the WW2 trilogy. Yeah, Ok, an oxymoron but gosh how do you change your whole website to accommodate the next few books?The Fat Chefis set in Paris and I originally based it in the famous ‘Le Meurice’. I even planned to go stay there for awhile to see first-hand what it was like. When I checked out the cost I decided discretion is the better part of valour and figured I could write the book even if I didn’t have first-hand knowledge of the place. |
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Posted on 20 March 2013 23:04
‘Call me Kuchu’ is a new film about homophobia made as adocu-drama concerning the adoption of a new law in Uganda making it illegal tobe gay. Not only that, but Gay/HIV positive individuals face execution. The film raises issues I suspect many men and women would rather not confront. As a nation, our people fought way back in our history against slavery, they established women’s rights and they died in a war against Nazism; they have entered wars always believing they were on the side of right, justice and fairness – at least that is what I was brought up to believe. |
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Posted on 08 March 2013 19:51
To-day I heard Jeremy Hunt Health Service Minister on the news. He said and I quote, ‘Just imagine that our Olympic athletes had the attitude of not coming last instead of winning. That is just what the NHS has been doing.’ Hearing that insult from a politician is both astounding and risible. As a Consultant in the NHS for 27 years, I can honestly say I have strived throughout to ensure my patients get the best possible treatment, whether I have had to fight for it or even whistle-blow. |
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Posted on 08 October 2012 05:51
The third novel in the trilogy is 'Francesca Pascal. It's written from a woman's perspective. I found that pretty hard as I've lived with women all my life but still don't understand them. Writing from a perspective where one has to put oneself into a female role betrays all one's weaknesses. The storyline is loosely built upon what happened to Lise Lesevre, a resistance worker who was captured by Klaus Barbie towards the end of the war. Yes, it is a harrowing account. Yes it is interspersed with action which is the part of my writing I like best (see Galdir I and II). |
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Posted on 03 October 2012 06:01
Another missing child. Kidnapped, stolen away. Like you, I feel deeply for the parents and family. What kind of people would do such a thing? It is incumbent upon society to be vigilant. We live in a world where evil seems to be rife, yet simple measures to keep children safe seem elusive. I realise now how lucky I've been to have had four living, healthy children but I have a feeling it is because of a degree of healthy paranoeia. Small children trust adults. If they have happy lives where they trust the adults around them, they are doubly trusting. |
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Posted on 30 September 2012 07:21
As a writer, I read the customer reviews on my books on Amazon regularly. It’s hard not to become obsessed by them and like any writer I am quite sensitive to criticism. Such sensitivity no doubt is from a lack ofconfidence as I’m relatively new to writing fiction. In my real job of course, I’m much more confident as you can’t do that job if you aren’t. Most reviewers are fair and looking at what they write demonstrates that it is a matter of taste and therefore subjective whether one likes a book or not. |
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