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  • I SHOULD LIKE TO WELCOME YOU …

    … to my newly refurbished website. We have refreshed all the pages, updated the links and made navigation easier and more intuitive. The heavy lifting has been done by Alpha State, and their work, as ever, has been excellent, efficient and imaginative. They have my grateful thanks. Over the past few years the blog has…

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  • SEVERAL YEARS AGO…

    … I began the annual practice of giving my readers an online gift.  In the first year everyone was sent a Higgs Boson; I also donated one to charity.  Some people said that the download was missing – well they are difficult to see, but it was definitely there, or they wouldn’t have received it; that…

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  • SOME MONTHS AGO …

    … and why it has taken so long to tell you, I don’t know, Orrydian published Ebenezer DuLally Uvney’s startling book THE GHOST AT CRONE. The publishers’ puff stated: “An isolated stately home in the dead of winter: the circumstances could not be more ominous for the disturbing manifestations which beset Crone Castle, the ancestral…

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  • THAT OLD FRAUD …

    … Ebenezer DuLally Uvney has now written ten introductions to classic works. All are published by Orrydian and may be bought through Amazon. These books are: THE RIME OF THE ANCIENT MARINER (Coleridge) ANIMAL FARM (Orwell) THE CANTERVILLE GHOST (Wilde) A CHRISTMAS CAROL (Dickens) THE STRANGE CASE OF DR JEKYLL AND MR HYDE (Stevenson) THE…

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  • THESE ANNUAL MESSAGES …

    … began in 2012, though I only started to archive them on my website the following year.  That fact indicates a decade of specialist Christmas gifts delivered, and a recognition of the next one due.  As usual, the sending of cards has been replaced by a donation to charity.  As ever, I have been racking my brain (apparently ‘wracking’, though…

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  • YOU MAY BE INTERESTED TO HEAR …

    … that Ebenezer DuLally Uvney, one of the characters in A DREAM OF LOCKDOWN, has escaped from those pages and is now being regularly asked by Orrydian to write new Introductions to their reprints of classic works. To date, the following titles have appeared: THROUGH THE LOOKING GLASS, THE TIME MACHINE, DR. JEKYLL AND MR….

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  • I AM VERY EXCITED …

    … by the positive response to the release of my book on Amazon a couple of days ago. is not quite the book I expected to write when I began it. I had no idea that interests as disparate as CRACKING THE CRYPTIC and Quantum Physics, my passion for the songs of the Beatles and…

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  • A DREAM OF LOCKDOWN …

    … has now been released on Amazon under the orrydian imprint as a printed book and for download to Kindle. This book is my first full-length work of fiction. I have written about music before, and also short stories, but never a novel. Having said that, the book does include much musing by the author…

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  • AS OUR WORLD BECOMES EVER MORE TOPSY-TURVY …

    … the time has come around again for me to send you the annual gift which you have all, doubtless, been keenly awaiting.   Previous offerings have concentrated of late on marks of punctuation: ideal, in that they are easy to send and deliver, useful and interesting to receive and, above all, to the point. This year’s…

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  • IT’S BEEN ANOTHER YEAR …

    … and now what? Having woefully neglected this blog for so long, I’d like to give you a quick update before, in a few days, sending you my annual New Year message and gift. Over this past year of Lockdowns, vaccinations and less social interaction than usual, I have delivered a library album to my…

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