Gingerlicious Nights 2024 Dates

It’s back for the New Year for your pleasure and entertainment On the menu: Venue: The Old Post Office and Café Bar, Silsden Time: 7pm Headline announcements to be added…. Dates may be subject to change

It’s back for the New Year for your pleasure and entertainment On the menu: Venue: The Old Post Office and Café Bar, Silsden Time: 7pm Headline announcements to be added…. Dates may be subject to change

Tick-tocking away
There’s always a child with a device clamped to an ear, eyes down
tick-tocking their soul, You-Tuber baby
Lost in instant thoughts, feelings, aspirations, narrowing horizons,
making them feel good, without knowing who they really are.

Poem for this week, trying to get caught back up!
This one is very much apt for this time of year - Pheasants
My grandson likes to play a game
on the morning run to school,
we count the number of pheasants seen,
it’s three or four as a rule.

My new Children’s Book – The Owl and The Mole is now available to purchase: Purchase here: from My Website Paperback RRP £7.99 OR Purchase here: … Kindle Edition RRP £7.99 The Owl and The Mole is a captivating…

A very cold day at The Ridings Shopping Centre in Wakefield where 30 or so brave PYA Authors braved the elements to promote and sell our books. I think I sold 5 or 6. A great day, even if it…

Author talk with Peter Kay (All about his new book, meet & greet & where to buy) – An interview with Author Peter Kay about his new book, a meet & greet this Saturday & where to buy his books.…
(Give the gift of a book this Christmas) The best of Yorkshire Authors will be at Ridings Shopping Centre, Wakefield, WF1 1DS, with the best of their books just in time for Christmas! Saturday, 2nd December, MEET THE AUTHORS –…

So the book it with the publishers – Just waiting for a date to be released soon! I’ll be back at the Ridings Shopping Centre in Wakefield on Saturday 2nd December! You can find me there with a collection of…

Double trouble, soil and rubble, in the pan no squeak or bubble. But in the dark her eyes glow green, though through the day she stays unseen, conjures creatures, bats and worms, snake in the toilet, how he squirms. Never…

Two copies of SMTWTS sold this week. One as a result of my daily blog, whilst walking from Santiago to Finisterre and One at last nights’ Bradford Writes event at Bradford City Library https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OnBanvkDr_A&list=PLl1RJJGimCiPdJ-OjHPfzJRiWRWiSNJQD&t=1s

Great night at Bradford City Library. So pleased to be a part of it.. #BradfordWrites

Black Sun
There is a black sun rising in the east,
a swirling, shape-shifting schizemic shift.
Twitchers throng, to embrace overhead feast,
each single element of airborne lift
combines to darken crimson blooded sky.
Freewheeling murmuration holds our gaze,
black sun fills binoculars held to try
to capture magic moments, as the day
slips into darkness the throng disperses,
thousands of sturnidae, forever lost.
Hooded crow signals eternal curses
as moon takes centre stage to count the cost.

Fabulous Gingerlicious Halloween open mic this Tuesday. With the fabulous host, David Driver: “Great night last night. Here are a few photos. Thanks Laura Strickland, Roz Ottery, Peter Kay Faye Roseanna, Ros Driver, Corinne Pollard, Robert Sandie, Louise Hofman.” Two…

Winter Tales: Saturday 2nd December at 2pm at @BingleyTheatre Bingley Writers will be reading their winter inspired creative writing including poetry, ghost stories, and Xmas cheer. Free entry. Links to book will be available soon. Please share and spread the…

“Happiness is meant to be shared” to quote a guy on a documentary about taking on the pilgrimage to the Camino de Santiago… …does happiness have to be shared? Is it not enough to have that warm feeling inside of…

Tomorrow is National Bookshop Day in the UK! So I am going to use this opportunity to promote both Book Dragon shop and two of my books available at The Book Dragon shop and from their website that ships internationally …

IT`S BACK!!! The open mic makes a welcome return. Halloween headliner is the gorgeous, Laura Strickland All welcome. Poets, storytellers and all creatives welcome. What`s in store? Free supper Free cakes The world famous Gin Raffle Brilliant performances from a…

Really looking forward to being a part of this: Bradford has a wealth of writers in every genre, who either self-publish their work or are published by small Indie presses. There will be writers of fiction, non-fiction and poetry for…

Final day selfie… Well today is our last day of walking to Finisterre. Rain has dried up and we are promised a fine morning before rains return this afternoon. 2 kilometres to go… Well we have arrived. What’s more the…

Pizza last night for a change and an interesting little diversion to visit a secret pool and be entertained by a red squirrel… Brilliant morning walk, now only 3km from Cee and 21km from Finisterre The parting of the ways……