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A CARERS LIFE  The reason I haven’t been able to write any blogs is that I have been looking after my husband who has developed dementia or Altheimer’s. Suddenly my...

One of the most surprising things about Christmas and New Year in Scotland is that Christmas was not celebrated as a festival and was virtually banned in Scotland for 400...

Hello everybody, I haven’t written any blogs for two years because my father died in January 2014 and then I moved house. I have now written another book called “The...

SPEECH FOR LADIES NIGHT Hello everyone, Well it’s that time of year again and you’ve got me again. Christmastime Some people love it and some hate it. One of the...

Thank the guest of honour (For gods sake Vivien find out what the bloody hell his name is before you sit down for dinner!!)Say how interesting his speech was etc...

A picture of Stella Stella Serck-Roche was a beautiful woman, even at 99 yrs old. I remember that I took her to buy a watch at a jewellers in Blachington...

From: Edward Keogh <keogh829@btinternet.com> Subject: Sewer Tours To: vivien@vivien-carmichael.co.uk Date: Friday, 5 October, 2012, 16:05 Other Sewer Tours, European and British:After posting my blog a friend sent me this information...

I first went on the Brighton Sewer tour when I was 18 yrs old. Varndean Grammar School arranged it after we had completed our A levels. We were all in...

Plenty of legroom I read a letter in the Times yesterday Tuesday 25th September, about Igor Sikorsky, the subject of my last blog. So I thought I would post it....

In my first book, “The Skimming Stone”, Archie and Ally time travel back to the Second World War, meet Jazz, a Spitfire pilot and witness a dogfight and a victory...

The Grail of the unicorn Planet is now on Kindle and can be downloaded or borrowed. Please use this link amzn.to/OUbNg7 Read it and let me know what you liked...

Perhaps the strangest reports of UFO sightings occurred at the end of the Second World War. Pilots, who are usually rational and sensible persons, reported seeing fast moving round glowing...

This is the beginning of my father’s story and tells why he decided to join the Royal navy.and the first chapter of my fathers experiences in the Second World War...

I was listening to Jeremy Vine on the Radio the other day and he was talking to Antony Beevor about his new book called “The Second World War”. Jeremy was...

I was delighted when Channel Four announced their programme about urban foxes, firstly because I love foxes and secondly because one of the characters in my book, “The Grail of...

In my book, “The Grail of the Unicorn Planet” the extraterrestrials that live on the planet Altair are highly advanced and benevolent. They visit Earth, unknown to most of us...

I have always liked Science fiction and have been inspired by H.G Wells and Jules Verne and later Asimov. So as a writer I wanted to incorporate this as an...

The Literacy class where I am a volunteer restarted after half term, last Monday the 20th February and I was very surprised to find that I learnt something myself. The...

What’s in a name? That which we call a rose by any other name would smell as sweet.(Shakespeare Romeo and Juliet Scene II, ii 1 -2). So speaks Juliet in...