A great book!

Nice one Alec! Feel younger already👍😄

Another great Swan passes on. Saw him play. Great Spurs player too. RIP Terry Medwin.
Wales and Tottenham legend Terry Medwin dies - Wales Online walesonline.co.uk/sport/football…

Some great heroes here

Avignon Le Palais des Papes. 1922. Roger Broders.

The Football Match. 1949. L.S. Lowry.

Very taken recently by the paintings of Paul Signac (1863-1935). Here is a selection of those I’ve posted in the last couple of weeks.

'Speed', Regent Street (1922) by Claude Flight

(The Metropolitan Museum of Art)

On this day in 1945, Hitler shot himself in his bunker.

A little under 3 months later, on the 16th July 1945, Winston Churchill smokes a cigar whilst sitting on the chair that was believed to have been Hitler’s; during his visit to the remains of the former Reich Chancellery.…

Congratulations, you have reached Wednesday.

Here, have three seconds of Kenneth Williams.

Good morning.

A fascinating view across White City in 1910 when the Japan British Exhibition was showing. See the tower of St Charles Hospital in the distance.

6am today May morning ,Oxford as Magdalen College choir herald the arrival of Spring from the top of the tower

Cosmopolitan Soho in London, 1956. #soho #london #1950s

My privilege next week at CrimeFest in Bristol to moderate a panel with these 4 great crime fiction writers: Pam Lecky Linda Stratmann Fiona Veitch Smith and Vaseem Khan. Title of the panel-Out with the Old: Crime Fiction set in Times of Strife and Change. 13.40 Friday 10/5.

Big moment

Passengers alighting at Paddock Wood railway station clutching their parcels and luggage. A lovely film from 1957.

One of my two favourite tv theme tunes of the time. The other was ‘Champion the Wonder Horse’ sung by Frankie Lane.

Fishing Boats, Eric Ravilious, 1938. It was painted at Tollesbury, #Essex . The original artwork is believed to be in a private collection.

I enjoyed speaking with HNS interviewer Leslie Lowe re: my publishing journey and release of my debut novel!

1 May 1660

This day I do count myself to have had full two years of perfect cure for the stone, for which God of heaven be blessed. … This day Captain Parker came on board, and without his expectation I had a commission for him for the Nonsuch frigate, (he being now in the…