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Season’s Greetings/Bonne annee!

At 6am this morning, we had the winter solstice – the shortest day of the year is behind us and the year is turned.Time to celebrate, as men, women and children have done for thousands of years.Time also to reflect – in the past few days, a much-loved friend of my brother has died “suddenly”, […]

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Ukulele Orchestra of GB – The Good the Bad the Ugly

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YouTube getting lots of hits

We now have over 1,140 hits on the promo video for “Lady Icarus” which is very encouraging. TG4 is showing an interest, but to get the film made, more than one TV station will need to get involved. Anything involving the filming of vintage planes is not going to come cheap.So thanks for your support […]

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lady Icarus

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Lady Icarus – the Movie

Now for ‘Lady Icarus – the Movie”, which will tell the story of Irish aviator Lady Mary Heath, who flew from Cape Town to London solo in 1928. To get backing at theSheffield Documentary Festival it needs LOTS of hits, so pass on the word (please!) and add your comments. We really need to get […]

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Great guitar/ukulele performance

Would you believe that the humble ukulele could produce music like this? Wonderful (off to buy a uke).

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Great guitar/ukulele performance

Would you believe that the humble ukulele could produce music like this? Wonderful (off to buy a uke).

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"Let’s Run" on the way

As it hapens, this isn’t the cover for “Let’s Run” after all – booksellers don’t like this one, so Susan from Ashfield Press is currently designing one based on photographs. Whatever happens you will still be to buy the book by mid-October at the very latest. Buy a copy and I’ll sign it for you!

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Photographs on Flickr

Where have I been for the last while? Mainly taking photographs and uploading them to my Flickr address which is (will add to my links):http://www.flickr.com/photos/62351605@N00/Just in case you want to look!

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Quality Irish Craftsmanship

The guys who built this wall (part of an extension to a house near where I live) were PAID! This is the side of the wall the woman who employed them clearly didn’t see….and I thought Doha was bad!

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