Monday, 9 April 2012


It has been said that everyone has one book in them.

Clearly this is only said by people who don’t have anything original to say for it is bollocks. Barbara Cartland wrote over 600 books (all nearly identical I grant you) and Frank Richards - the creator of Billy Bunter - wrote  around 75 million words in his lifetime. A friend of mine at college once ate a hardback edition of Charles Dickens "A Christmas Carol" for a bet. I suppose that yon could say that for a while he had one book in him, and by all accounts it stayed there quite a while if his graphic toiletry accounts are to be believed. On the other hand there are millions of people out there whose sole contribution to world literature is to write a weekly shopping list on the back of a junk mail envelope.

I find that I'm different again. I don’t have merely one book in me, but nor do I have a whole book in me. I do however have several bits of books floating around in my head. A while ago it occurred to me to lump them all together and see if they will make one book that will sell (or that a publisher will buy at least).

So here it is - a collection of unconnected ramblings. Great for those people who start books but never finish them or those people who can read several books at once. A market researchers dream, covering  - in theory  -100% of the population at the same time. You will know if it’s successful because if it is, I shall cobble some more nonsense together from time to time
Authors caution

Please note that most of what is contained here is of an extremely trivial nature and most of it is not true anyway. It is designed (depending on the nature of the reader) to entertain or irritate only.

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