
“There is only one difference between a madman and me. The madman thinks he is sane. I know I am mad.”
Salvador Dali

Publisher search
I’m looking for a new publisher for the paperback edition of my latest book as Unbound/Boundless is going through a particularly rocky patch. If you’re struggling to get copies, I have a stock here and can supply both bookshops and retail customers.

A timely reminder
Official recognition that I will shortly turn 70 should I guess be welcomed, but it feels a little that I am at the top of a slippery slope.

Living in the moment
I heard on Saturday how Ronald Blythe made sure he enjoyed every moment of every day. Somehow I have yet to shake of the sense of anxiety that has followed me wherever I go.

It’s time to become more contemplative
No, I’m not about to change direction, or keep running aimlessly round and round. It’s time now to become more contemplative, thoughtful and that means less available too.

Is it time to accept that I am getting old?
I am reaching a stage in life when physical decline is, however much I fight it, inevitable. Can new intellectual challenge and growth really replace the physical fitness that I know is going to start slipping away?

Am I unreasonable enough?
I’d long wanted to venture behind these green gates, and am really pleased that I found time last week to do just that.

A pilgrimage of sorts
The other day I visited the house in Needham Market where George Ewart Evans and his wife Florence lived.
Like me, the current owners had a connection, both to the Evans family and to the Quaker banking family who had lived in the house in the 18th century.

You don’t ask the fire brigade to water your garden!
. NHS subsidised treatment abroad leave the NHS free to do what it does best; deal with emergencies. Could this be a solution to those scarily long NHS waiting lists?

Goldilocks surgery!
A fellow patient at the Nord Clinic in Lithuania described this guy as a God. He’s certainly highly skilled at keyhole surgery, as I discovered last week when I became a medical tourist for the first time.

I’ll never get bored!
When you introduce two writers to each other, whose books work will together, magic can be the result.

Why I doubt I’ll live to 90
Dennis was my late mother’s brother. I was born on his 31st birthday and he died months before his 90th. My kids tell me that as I grow older, I remind them of him. That gives me a useful prediction of how long I might live.

Doing the right thing - in the right way!
I’ve successfully used Crowdfunder UK for a number of campaigns, but never has one succeeded quite as quickly as this one!

Accepting and adapting
There’s a lot written about the rise in medial tourism, but when you look at it objectively, everybody wins. It’s time to be realistic, creative and get things done. Sitting on the fence can be uncomfortable!

2025 will be different!
They say if you want to get ahead, get a hat. I’m going further and my hat is now evidence of the fact that in 2025, I will no longer tolerate things that I find even slightly annoying!

Am I neuro-diverse?
Can having a high IQ be considered to be neurodiverse, and if so, what benefit is there to me in shouting about something I’ve always considered a disability?

There’s no turning back
We’ve finally exchanged contracts on the sale of the plot where we had once intended to build our final home. Now we can focus 100% on building our new life here in Suffolk.

People don’t change
I’m left handed, and learned yesterday that the proportion of the population who are left handed, has not changed in thousands of years. A reminder that while life was very different 4,000 years ago, people have hardly changed at all.

We have a new neighbour
I keep meeting people who have moved to Leiston because it is affordable, and close to so many amazing places. It’s perhaps time people challenge their perception of the town, and invest here.

I was tempted by another trustee role . . . and then I thought again!
It's time to stop chasing roles in other organisations, and instead, focus on writing my next book, and then the one that will follow that!

I’m getting Down to Earth
I'm now busy researching and writing my next book. Once more I'm being published by Unbound, which means you have the opportunity to see your name printed in the back of the book.

“The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable man persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man.”
George Bernard Shaw