Just thought I'd offer a quick update to the previous entry in my blog.

My uncle has not only been in contact with his daughter, but they have met a couple of times, and he has discovered that he is in fact a legitimate grandfather, with two grandchildren, one in their early twenties, and the other is five years old.

For her it must be a bit more of a shock to suddenly find that she has a large family out there, cousins, step-cousins, aunts and uncles, and against all...

Recently I discovered that I had a problem with Facebook. It was not really a serious one, more something on a personal level, but certain posts were starting to annoy me. Generally it was people sharing quotes and comments that were meant to seem funny and derogatory at others expense, coming across as smug and intelligent, when there were flaws all the way through them.

Of course if I responded it would have led to all sorts of arguments, so I hid away for a few weeks, blocked the...

I have not really been doing too much of late rather than writing (or attempting to write) a novel.
With the first draft done, I have decided to try and do a blog or two again, but in this instance it is something that I decided to leave for a year before I wrote it.

It is intended as an observation nothing more.

One year ago today at the time of writing we (well more exactly my wife) had our second child.
Much as had been the case with the first one...

One of the things that you get used to doing what I do for a living are the responses that it gets from other people - some are disgusted, others just show a disinterest, while others just close their ears and change the subject but the most common response is fascination.

It's a funny old thing how something that is the most natural thing in the world, the one thing that unites everyone, no matter their colour, their age, their belief, the one thing that cannot be stopped is death....

I was just rereading the first entry in these family matters blogs and something has occurred to me. The whole reason I started writing them was to address an issue that I had been avoiding, but that led me to start talking about the family, and the more I talked the more I was able to push that initial subject further away.

The family history is very interesting, especially the older stuff, and I will write one last one to tie everything together but the main reason I started this...