And then …
My girlfriends grandmother – who we were due to visit later this week – died last night. Just like that. Taken ill late on in the evening, was rushed to hospital, operated on, but then passed away in the early hours. I now have a funeral to go to, instead of a ‘drop by and have a cup of tea’ type of visit. And there’s me complaining about crap novels.





After living in London for the first 33 years of my life and working for the 
So for ten weeks in June, July and August 2009, I drove 20,000 miles around the the lower 48 contiguous states of the USA visiting towns and places that shared the same name as places on The London