Culture Man - set in Winchester - is free on Kindle this week! I'm delighted with the uptake, with 2,200 downloads so far and it's listing at no. 1 in historical mysteries in the US. amazon.co.uk/dp/B07179KFNZ

Despite trying to focus on writing, here's a weekly cartoon. Be assured that the production standards will improve (probably) 🙂 #cartoon

Here's this week's cartoon

True stars, both

Here's this week's cartoon. Do you think they're getting any better🙂

Jack Fairweather wins for The Volunteer, a biography of Witold Pilecki, who voluntarily entered Auschwitz to report on its horrors and was executed by the Polish communists in 1948. The Costas: for UK-based writers; 5 categories; 1 overall winner; started in 1971. #literature

This week's cartoon - not as complex as last week's! #cartoon

This week's #cartoon. I'm surprised I haven't been picked up by Clinton Cards yet.

By the way, Culture Man is on 99p (or 99c) offer until next Thursday (Kindle version): amazon.co.uk/dp/B07179KFNZ #kindle #book

After a hiatus of a couple of weeks, here's this week's cartoon. It's an old joke, but rarely drawn quite like this!

Just submitted my book to Awesomegang.com for exposure so readers can find it and read it TY Vinny #authors #amwriting

This update of my arts prizes blog brings us right up to date with the latest awards including Booker Prize, Emmys, MTV Video, Arthur C. Clarke award and a heads up on the Turnip Prize! sportingtales.co.uk/blog/index.php…

You can get involved in high culture by voting for the 2021 Bookseller/Diagram Prize for Oddest Title of the Year. Voting deadline is Friday and winner announced 3 Dec. See thebookseller.com/news/diagram-p… for the shortlist and thebookseller.com/diagram-prize-… to vote.

@TwBookClub Something strange happened yesterday. After Culture Man was Book of the Day two weeks ago (and gained much interest and about 25 sales), suddenly - after a gap - there were 50 sales yesterday. Must be Amazon catching up - either that or it's about to reach the top! @TwBookClub

Plus a brass band, a bit of cold, and some excellent stalls, I believe ..... x.com/curious_lions/…

Culture Man (currently guarding Winchester's culture) congratulates Coventry, UK's City of Culture for 2021. #ThisisCoventry #UKCityofCulture2021

My handle is about to change from CultureMan8 to SportingTales1 to match my other social media, and to better reflect there are and will be other stories. Fear not, though, Culture Man is still out there, swooping across the Winchester skies. Happy New Year from Culture Man!

Earth-i (a UK company in Guildford) launched a prototype of the world's first full-colour video satellite constellation today. Here's a clip of the satellite being ejected at 505km, after its launch from India! x.com/Earthi_/status…

One of many excellent pictures from Andrea, this time of Salisbury Cathedral and on the cover of Salisbury life x.com/SalisburyLife/…

As it states, first commercial satellite producing colour video from space - (and a pretty cool video!) - from the company I work for, Earth-i. youtube.com/watch?v=OBxJSr…