Baker Seal 28 yacht

A few years ago I bought a yacht. It’s a Baker Seal 28. I had no boating or sailing experience. Learning to sail at the local dingy club after getting the yacht. I then did RYA Powerboat Level 2 and…

India Travelogue 1996

This covers my second visit to India 1995/6 (6 months over Xmas) the first visit was 1994/5 over Xmas. You can read about that visit on this website too. This travelogue is about the journey I took in 1996 from…

Bert

2017 – This story is terrible and the politics are all wrong, post 2020 I’d not have written this. Its not pro-war but the brief was to write a fiction story based on facts. At the time I lived in…

Departure Gate

Written 2017 “I’m going to have a coffee, how about you?” said the man. “Ok, I’ll have a tea,” said the girl. She took off her coat and hung it on the back of the chair. For a minute neither…

Biggles and the Jackal

A mix of Biggles and the Jackal from “The Day of the Jackal”. Double fan fic. Biggles looked down at the cold morning rolling French landscape from the two seater ‘pusher’ type aircraft. Ahead of him an empty seat: leaving…

Biggles and the Cool Trip

(This is based on an actual Biggles book “Another job for Biggles” where they set fire to a hashish plantation and Ginger gets high. The opening is based on the same book where Biggles and Raymond do indeed examine a…

Biggles and the Fags Of Doom

2017 – There are a lot of typical Biggles book moments here. 18. Algy has a nice cup of tea It was morning and the sky was bright blue overhead as Algy stood by the Deth-Trap-o-Smoko. He had spent a…

Cold Coffee

Written 2017 Gladys sat down on the sofa with her shopping bags all around her. “Bloody cold out there,” she said. “That it is mum,” said Beryl. “At least we got the fancy dress.” “Yes. Do you want a coffee?”…

Ead’s Invisible Bin Spaceship

2017 – something not quite right about this story, what do you think? Ead pressed the buttons of his spaceship and brought it into land at Trafalgar Square. It was 1pm in the afternoon on a Saturday.             No one…

Captain Clarkson and the Age of Thump

a retelling of the legend of Icarus in modern political satire Written 2017. This was the original version of Project Icarus, “silly men doing silly things”, and the message was lost. So I took out the silly and made Project…

Rupert

Written 2017 Julia stood by the train door as it pulled into Beckton station. She had been watching the nearly empty platform all the time as it had come into view. The small train was almost empty, and as the…