Green Smarties

The book is well and truly launched now, and selling well in Kindle form and also the printed version through Amazon. It can also be ordered through independent bookshops.

Lots of Navy friends have been in touch and it brings back memories of our adventures in the exotic Far East – particularly Singapore as it used to be in 1971.

Also my lovely friend Lydia has been in touch. She kept me sane while I lived in Yeovil and we brought seven children up between us. It is so good to have a hearty laugh about the old times – including when our two families were together having a drink one time when her twins were about two years old. As she tried to quieten them down, Peter said ‘Don’t worry they can’t do any harm’ and with that one twin lobbed a wooden brick in the air and it landed in Peter’s gin and tonic! No wonder she and I reached for the sherry bottle on a regular basis.

I have been quite busy with sailors of a different kind recently – well pirates really! I have been treading the boards at the Poole Lighthouse for a week in the Bournemouth Gilbert and Sullivan show of the Pirates of Penzance. It was great fun and rather lively. The Pirates and the ‘girls’ were supposed to have a fight on stage, but unfortunately one pirate during the pillaging scene got over enthusiastic and broke my parasol with his cutlass. Fortunately it was the last performance and I did not need the parasol again!

Book number two is on the way and at the editing stage. This will be completely different and although based on a true story, it is a mixture of fact and fiction (I believe this is known as faction) and called ‘The Stealth Virus Conspiracy’. But that is another story as they say.