View from the Potting Shed

I was doing so well too. I’d managed to pack up seven bookcases without reading any of the books — well, okay just the one — when I discovered a box beside my desk marked “Journals”. “Ha ha!” I thought, “this should be fun.”
One thing that I like about my journal writing when […]

If I ever decide to write a novel (stranger things have happened!) I’ve found the perfect Random Name Generator™: SPAM! By which I mean unsolicited e-mail rather than the tins of spiced pork and ham.
Here are the marvellous names of people who today have supposedly e-mailed me personally to inform me about how I can […]

While you were asleep (probably, if you live in the UK) I was up early (05:45) and working on the final few edits and corrections to the first draft of the Teach Yourself Mahjong book which landed on my doorstep about a fortnight ago. So far I’ve only spotted about 15 corrections, which is […]

At last, I’m done — and I’m fairly done in too! — the book manuscript is finished and awaiting posting.
For those of you who may not know, since May I’ve been working on writing an update to the Hodder Education book Teach Yourself Mahjong. The original author, Mr David Pritchard, sadly died at the end […]

God is good. I know that I’ve said it before, and I’ll probably get a load of comments claiming that God is good anyway regardless of the lovely things he does for Jane and I, and I quite agree … BUT, I’ll say it again: God is good. And this is why:
Way back in 2004 […]

Here’s an exclusive preview of what I’ve done on the mahjong book so far:

I’m going to call the book A Writer’s Block Tribute to Mahjong.
Only kidding, but I do wish that I had more energy. As much as I’m enjoying the discipline and new rhythm to life, this ‘proper job’ 9-5 routine is rather […]

A nice clear desk, set up for writing about Mahjong, with a library of Mahjong books to my left, and the two monitors: book text on the left screen, update log on the right screen.
This morning I made good progress on the edits for the Teach Yourself Mahjong book that I’m revising. I hate […]