Author Archives: fordhollow74

WORDS IN WATCHET LITERARY FESTIVAL

Posted on February 17, 2025 by fordhollow74

21st to 23rd February 2025. That is the time to visit Watchet, the legendary harbour town of Coleridge’s Ancient Mariner. Tickets available from: http://www.wordsinwatchet.com A packed programme of West Country talent. Local authors will be there to offer their books … Continue reading →

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PUFFBALL PARADOX

Posted on February 23, 2024 by fordhollow74

This is my third novel, due to be self-published in March 2024. The last weeks of 2007 are life-changing for Victoria and Franklyn. Victoria is sent on a year-long work assignment in New York. Franklyn is made redundant from his … Continue reading →

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CANNA

Posted on November 2, 2022 by fordhollow74

Last week we said goodbye to our dog and friend of the last few years, CANNA. She was a fortnight short of her fourteenth birthday, the fifth dog we have owned since our first in 1971. KATIE MALACCA, a Dalmatian, … Continue reading →

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THE INTERNATIONAL SPACE STATION

Posted on March 24, 2022 by fordhollow74

Last night I watched the International Space Station fly over. Its orbit had taken it over South America, crossing the Equator, and the Atlantic to overfly the West of England, seemingly directly over where I stood, watching, the Sun’s bright … Continue reading →

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HOW CAN THIS HAPPEN IN THE TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY?

Posted on March 2, 2022 by fordhollow74

Until this year my knowledge of the Republic of Ukraine has been minimal. I knew little of the country’s geography and even less of its history. Over recent years there have been increasing press and broadcast reports and now in … Continue reading →

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DUDLEY AND EUNICE, SUCH A SWEET COUPLE.

Posted on February 24, 2022 by fordhollow74

They arrived on the charabanc for their seaside break at the Great Grand Hotel in Weston-super-Mare, down from the Midlands. Two nights bed and breakfast, take the sea air, have a good break then home again. But something must have … Continue reading →

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IS THERE AN END IN SIGHT?

Posted on January 31, 2022 by fordhollow74

Rather shocked to see it is again ten months since I wrote in Chip’s Chatter. I must return to my original intention of monthly pieces now, surely, that the pandemic is waning. Progress with my work in progress has also … Continue reading →

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CATCHING UP

Posted on April 14, 2021 by fordhollow74

You would have thought that the last few lockdown months would have been ideal for posting on the website and making progress on my several writing projects. Not a bit of it. I see it is ten months since I … Continue reading →

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ON EXPERTISE AND CRAFTSMANSHIP

Posted on June 29, 2020 by fordhollow74

I am reading Mark Norman’s thought-provoking book on Folklore; ‘Telling the Bees – and other customs – The Folklore of Rural Crafts – The History Press’. There is much to think about stemming from this book not only during our … Continue reading →

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ISOLATION

Posted on March 29, 2020 by fordhollow74

Throughout the world people are attempting to isolate themselves and their families from the pandemic winding its deadly fingers through Twenty-first Century civilization. At the same time, in all countries, dedicated health professionals strive to repel the wretched consequences of … Continue reading →

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