Friday, November 18, 2011

OLD MEN CAN'T WAIT


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I am off to the NEC at Birmingham tomorrow for the UK's major motorcycle show and will be there all eight days signing books on the TRAVEL-DRI stand and on TOURATECH.

BOOK BIRTHING


I have been writing books for much of my adult life; yesterday was my first birthing experience.
Paddy Tyson of OVERLAND magazine drove me across the Welsh border to Pontypool where MWL Print Group was the midwife. Modern printing and binding machines produce with speed. Fascinating to watch books streaming out of the maw and into boxes...
And what instinct leads me to chat to the only man on the work floor who remembers fondly the Good Old Days of pre-Murdoch Fleet Street when the union ran a closed a shop?

Monday, November 14, 2011

SPECIAL RELATIONSHIP

Studying Republican contenders for the US Presidency:
Universal health care is sinful.
Water-boarding is moral.

Brit Political leaders boast of their ability to maintain the Special Relationship.

With these people?
Thank you, but I'd rather give it a miss...