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Read a Good Book Lately?? How about my latest work of fiction? Chapter XXl Armageddon. If you enjoy believing the impossible can be possible, if you enjoy fantasy and adventure, if you like to dream of what might be, or what … Continue reading
A Late Christmas Gift Idea.
The Royal Navy & Me Now available as an E-Book, go to http://www.smashwords.com/profile/view/irishrover This is a story told through the eyes of a young sailor who joined the Royal Navy in 1955 as a Boy Seaman 2nd class, the absolute lowest … Continue reading
Read a Good book Lately????
Although a memoir, it is definitely not stuffy or boring, as one might, at first think. I often hesitate picking up a book that is a memoir as it’s usually written by some retired politician, claiming if he hadn’t been … Continue reading
To Remember Back When.
It is sometimes difficult to sit here at the computer and just begin writing another blog. Sometimes I find myself drawing a blank, especially when things are quiet on the political front, and they do indeed seem to be at … Continue reading
Posted in Belfast Blitz, Belfast Social History, family, veterans
Tagged Belfast, blogging, Bombs, election, guest speaker, history, Legion, Lily & Me, PC Party, politics, remembering, speaker, war, writing
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Lily & Me (change of pace)
It has been ten years since I launched my first book to the reading public. Since that time I have had good success and many very kind reviews. However, when I first began to write I often wondered if anyone … Continue reading
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Tagged buy, church, enjoy, learn, Lily & Me, read, review, snow, storm, The Royal Navy & Me; Chapter XXI Armageddon, winter
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A Yoda Weather Report
Woof Woof Snow!!! Thanks Yoda that is a very accurate weather report. No church today it is already snowing quite heavy and the forecast is for approx 25 to 35 cms of snow with high winds. The winds are the … Continue reading
Lily & Me
This is my first book, I authored and published in 2004. Sales have been good and feed back very encouraging. I thought today I would share what I consider one of the nicer reviews this book received. Art is the … Continue reading
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Tagged booksurge, creatspace, Lily & Me, marketing, reading., self publishing, speaking, The Royal Navy & Me.
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HMS Eastbourne & The Cod War!!!!
I was a young sailor aboard HMS Eastbourne, in 1958 when we were sent to protect the British trawler fleet fishing off Iceland. The Icelandic Government had increased the territorial waters from 3 to 12 miles. The British Government refused … Continue reading
Posted in HM Submarines, HMS Cockade, hms ganges, military, The Royal Navy & Me, veterans
Tagged booksurge, creatspace, Lily & Me, marketing, reading., self publishing, speaking, The Royal Navy & Me.
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The Royal Navy That Used To Be
I remember standing on the foc’sle on morning watch weighing anchor with the smell of the North Wind whipping in from ahead and the taste of salt spray on my lips. The feel of the ship beneath my feet, a … Continue reading
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Tagged booksurge, creatspace, Lily & Me, marketing, reading., self publishing, speaking, The Royal Navy & Me.
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That Last Minute Christmas Gift!!!
Remember, if you are stuck for that last minute gift there is always one of my books. Both available and I can be delivered within the Queens County area. Each book costs $15 for a signed copy, and will make … Continue reading
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