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Writerly Witterings

For many years I have maintained a couple of blogs, one at Writerly Witterings, which is where I have tended to put book reviews and commentaries, but also messages updating my life.

If you are interested in these mindless witterings, please hit the link below – otherwise scroll down for my latest posts.

Now for the more up-to-date stuff!

• Smithsonian Journeys
  For the last few years (starting the year before Covid struck), I have been joining Smithsonian Journeys on their Classic British Mystery tours. I have to admit, they are enormous fun for me. Well, they would have to be, wouldn’t they? It means I get to leave my desk and go out to meet new people, talk to them about crime writing and mystery writers, visit locations where so many books have been set, or the places where people lived and wrote, and enjoy great company. The tours tend to start down in Torquay, which is a superb location to… Read more: Smithsonian Journeys
• Welcome to the new website!
  And good morning. After many years of enjoying the old site I’ve finally bitten the bullet and moved over. The old site was perfectly good, and I was lucky to have some great administrators on it, but the sad fact is, it was looking very tired. It was designed back in the early/mid 90s, I think, and every pixel had to be programmed, as I understand it. Certainly, because it was created long before the advent of clever stuff like WordPress and Wix, it was one of those things that would have cost thousands to have updated. So I embarked… Read more: Welcome to the new website!