Why me?
Published: Fri, 12/08/17
Hi This morning I re-read the first part of my manuscript. The first part covers my early life and how I originally got interested in martial arts and…
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Only nine years later
Published: Thu, 11/30/17
Hi ,On my notice board I have a print out from an email which I received almost nine years ago. I had had an article published in an American Martial…
Another one bites the dust
Published: Fri, 11/24/17
Hi So, another name from my youth passes away this week. David Cassidy was not that much older than me, less than ten years anyway. I was not really a…
The power of JFDI
Published: Fri, 11/17/17
Hi Over 36,000 words now for the first draft of my Martial arts book. I have completed the section on self-defence, tomorrow morning will start the…
Aiming to please
Published: Mon, 11/13/17
Hi I had a kind of complaint from one of my regular readers. Perhaps more of a request than a moan, he was suggesting that recently I have been…
Shaping the future
Published: Fri, 11/10/17
Hi We can’t predict the future. We can’t control what happens in the future. The future will always contain some surprises and events you did not e…
Keeping order in the classroom
Published: Tue, 11/07/17
Hi On Sunday afternoon Venetia and I went to see if you can walk around Hornsea Mere. You can’t, at least not on a footpath around the banks. You can…
Focus on now
Published: Tue, 10/31/17
Hi I have started my book with a detailed recollection of my early journey through martial arts. It is a little strange looking back at who I was 30,…
Believe it or not
Published: Mon, 10/30/17
Hi If I had a pound for every time I have started to write a book I would have enough for, well, a fairly good meal. I have started again, I am…
Letting the train take the strain
Published: Tue, 10/24/17
Hi I travelled back to Beverley from Epsom yesterday on the train. Every stage ran e actly on time and it was all very rela ed and pleasant. Okay, the…