The latest Paris riots as I write this in late 2018 are a terrible affront on normal society. I generally have a high regard for the French attitude to authority. And I am amazed that President Macron hasn’t seen this coming. The world is changing and with it, society’s willingness to have punitive and disconnected […]
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Supply and Demand – the Needless Suffering of the Supercar Driving Experience Industry
The Supercar Driving Experience industry is in pain and quite possibly dying in the UK. It’s an industry I worked in as an instructor for more that a decade and so it saddens me deeply to be writing this post. I have a great affection for the industry, the great people within it and the […]
Want to Write? Find Writers To Help Your Style
Whether you aspire to be a better writer, or you simply enjoy reading a well written book, blog post or magazine feature, you will know that all writers have a style that develops over time. It’s ever evolving and it’s the thing that dictates whether you like a writer or not. So what makes a […]
A Few Hours in Bruges
Many people travelling from the UK to Europe and back arrive via the Hull – Zeebrugge ferry connection. Of course, the first thing you wish to do after an overnight ferry is to hit the road and get some miles behind you as you head south to the sunshine. However, if you’re able to pause […]
The Morning After the Storm
I have this weird clock inside my head that wakes me up. It’s annoying sometimes, especially on those days when, the evening before, you say to yourself, “I’m going to have a lazy lie in tomorrow morning.” It almost never happens. I’ve given up on the idea these days and just roll with it. A […]
Omaha Beach – Les Braves
This must have been an utterly terrifying place on earth to be on the dawn of 6th June 1944. Omaha Beach and that whole area of the French coastline is covered with the scars of warfare. as I stood on the same beach in 2018, utterly open and without the tiniest scrap of cover, it […]
Memories of Los Angeles
As I’m sitting watching the international news right now, with California burning in the heat and wind of the dry climate, I was reminded of my visit there in 2015. I travelled there to meet up with Ron Chapple of Aerial Film Works. Ron’s one of the stellar aerial filming specialists in the world and […]
Aged 18 Years – Remembrance
Today, it seems appropriate to share this picture. It was the image that hit me the hardest from my work at Thiepval two years ago when I covered the Centenary of the start of The Battle of The Somme. Just 48 hours earlier, I had wished one of my sons a happy 18th Birthday before […]
Remembrance and Thiepval
This Remembrance weekend marks the Centenary of Armistice. The day when the guns finally fell silent in what became known as The Great War. In this modern age, with all the tools we have for communicating directly with one another, you would like to think that the possibility of such a conflict ever recurring is […]