Any farmers on my timeline? I'm looking for a good beginners guide book to farming in the UK, including regenerative farming. Purely to improve my general knowledge and understanding. I'm not becoming a farmer or an eco-zealot. Recommendations much appreciated. #farming

I'm in bother because I failed to compliment the wife's new glasses. In the doghouse again!

Lovely walk today in a quieter part of the Peak District...

I'll be signing copies of my World War Two novels at Penkridge Military Fair near Stafford this Sunday, 18 Aug, from 0900 onwards. ST19 5AP...

Lazy weekend, so popped over to watch the Stafford gentlemen take on Checkley. I do miss the classic whites mind you.

Bloody Meadow has sold out again!

Fish Finger sandwiches tonight troops. Food on which empires are built!

I'm fascinated by the concreting going on next door. It's like having your own documentary on the construction industry permanently playing in the office.

Hard to believe it's 9 years since publication. Also can't believe I originally wrote it in 1991 during down-time in an observation post in Northern Ireland, aged 22. Must write Book 2 at some point!!

We took some great shots for the cover of Crucible of Fate. Shame we couldn't use them all...

The view that started it all; ruins of a pill box at Hunmanby Gap, Filey Bay in Yorkshire. Also, Churchill's anti-invasion defences map from the Cabinet War Rooms. #SeelöweNord #TheGermansAreComing

Another excellent image that almost became a front cover; this time for Thunder in May... but was pipped to the post...

One more weekend of the holidays... If you get a shift on you could read this one in a day 😉

So... September then...

How I wish I lived in a world like this. Classic public information film from 1959... 'The Policeman'... youtu.be/Kw8xjagiRao?si…

Don't look at Netflix much, but just watched the Cowboy Wars documentary series and found it fascinating. Really well done.

I had a few copies of Bushido Dawn with a slight misprint in the page header, so I've written a little message in each and spent the last two weeks dropping them into community lending libraries. If you come across one, please pass it on once finished with. Cheers 👍

Excellent day in London for a lunch celebrating our company's 25th anniversary and catching up with old colleagues. Might have drunk too much, perhaps... hic.

Brewing for a storm...

Southwell Minster has a very Lord of the Rings/Mines of Moria feel to it.