Organic doggy treat lovers

This was sent from our dear friends, Chris and Renée who own their own dog organic biscuit company - click here for further information on Barkwheats.
Hello Barkwheats Aficionados!
This weekend on Maine’s NBC affiliates WLBZ-2 and WCSH-6, they will be airing a special on Barkwheats during their Weekend 207 Report. It will air on Saturday, […]

Valor the phoenix


Life’s a circus

I’m standing at the stove, stirring a risotto to all its luscious creaminess with one hand and blogging with the other - probably not the best thing to do but c’est la vie, or more appropriately, c’est ma vie. Anyway I’m standing here, stirring and blogging and thinking about trains. I rather like trains. Not […]

Friends, Romans, countrymen

Rome Reborn 1.0 Pictures
One of my major passions, other than geeky technology, Formula 1, Italy and clothes, is the ancient world, particularly ancient Greece and Rome. My ultimate job, (other than being a writer, a spy for MI5 or MI6 or working for the NATO Defense College in Rome), is to work at the British […]

Emotive mornings

I lose myself in the drive from dropping Jay off at school to my work. Every weekday morning I whizz down Bass road, windows open to catch the wind in my hair, aching for just a drop of salt-sea breeze that never comes, watching the mid-west corn fields and the west, with all its adventuring, […]

Green can be sexy

I’m always on the look-out for a car that is both kind to the environment and looks good. When it comes to cars I am completely shallow - how can I not be when my favourite car of all times is the Bugatti EB 110? However I am super conscious of milage and petrol consumption […]

Small Castle for Sale

This link is to the house that I dream about owning. As it is not too horrifically expensive, (hey, it’s all relevant) perhaps one day I might actually be able to sit on the terazzo and look out on the Italian country garden with the little statue of Neptune and write my books. As my […]

A month already?

Oh dear, it’s been a month since I last wrote. So much for that weekly thing. But I did spend ten days of that month down in Huntsville, AL with my mum and Jerry. But seeing as they have a computer it’s not really a suitable excuse. Anyway I’ve just spent the last hour doing […]