It’s a year since Coronavirus killed off Parental Alienation Day for many of us … and this year’s event a few days ago was low-key. But things still happened across the world, sadly with very little coverage. So lets try and put that right. If you have any pictures or thoughts on PA DAY, send… Continue reading One from the heart as world campaigners say ‘our children are for life’

The long and the short of it is this … last year we did a two hour show with Maria Kyriakou and Ralph Ripley Hall, former musicians with the Halle Orchestra, the Birmingham Philharmonic and many orchestras across the world. They are true expats, having lived in Iceland, Germany, Slovakia and so many other places… Continue reading WE’VE DONE IT! WE’VE FOUND THE LOST SHOW!

Restaurant terraces and gyms are about to open again as Slovakia eases coronavirus restrictions. Measures are said to have slowed the spread of COVID-19 in recent weeks. The latest easing follows the re-opening of shops, hotels, hair salons, churches, libraries, pools and zoos. But customer numbers will be restricted and they will have to show… Continue reading Has Slovakia’s vaccine system dumped thousands of vulnerable people as restaurants and bars re-open?

Writing is a really difficult business and to get to the top is like climbing a rope ladder … you hang on for dear literary life as it twists and turns and tries to throw you ‘into the valley below’. I’ve been lucky – all my working life I have made my living as a… Continue reading Only true genius can sting like a butterfly! So go for integrity, not false praise

During the opening months of 2021 I have faced the social media insult and threat machine from conspiracy theorists and amateur propagandists alike over the fact that I question that Covid-19 is a world plot to take control of our minds, money and liberty. And the one question I can never get a straightforward, non-insulting,… Continue reading As a sick man closes Perth W.A. are we seeing the dystopian shape of things to come?

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Gerry and the Pacemakers singer Gerry Marsden died at the age of 78, two years younger than Bob will be soon. Gerry’s band was one of the biggest successes of the Merseybeat era, and in1963 their first three songs hit the top of the charts. The band’s second best known hit, Ferry Cross The Mersey,… Continue reading How Dylan has set the pace for remembering his contemporaries like the Liverpool ‘ferryman’

Where life matters… in the hearts of police officer and a young girl Joe Biden told the USA that the guilty verdict in the Derek Chauvin trial sends the message that nobody is above the law. He called the killing of George Floyd a stain on the nation’s soul. Biden was speaking after the jury… Continue reading GEORGE FLOYD, the man who could finally change racist America

Jim Steinman, a self-confessed creature of the night, has died. He was 73. Jim wrote for Meat Loaf, Bonnie Tyler and Celine Dion. No cause of death has been given. His songs sold more than 190 million copies worldwide. He was nominated for four Grammys over the course of his career as well. His best-known… Continue reading A rock’n’roll dream comes to an end… Jim Steinman is dead, aged 73

How things that came around come around again in our Covid world… this story was written almost a year ago to the day in 2020. Our world had begun a slow creaking revolution in the universe and we thought we were making our first clod-hopping, aching steps back to normality. How wrong we all were,… Continue reading How the corona-virus darkness has started to lift on our little mountain city in central Europe