Hello folks and a very warm welcome to our “occasional” monthly blog for the book “Newcastle Old and New the story so far…” – I continue to be overwhelmed with the response to the book as sales have exceeded another milestone of “100” sales YEESS! A major personal ach...

Hello folks and a warm welcome to our “occasional” monthly blog for the book “Newcastle Old and New the story so far…” – I continue to be overwhelmed with the response to the book as sales have exceeded the big “8-0”, a major personal achievement considering we had onl...

Hello folks and a warm welcome to our “occasional” blog update for the book “Newcastle Old and New the story so far…” – so much has happened since last month as I have hit the big “5-0”, sadly not my age but the books purchased so far!! Yippee!!

 As many of my friends,...

Well hello, hope you are all keeping well – it’s a strange time of year, it’s officially spring and it looks really lovely outside, but it can be very deceptive as its still cold out there… However the weathers getting better and the nights are getting lighter – and of...

Hi folks hope you are all keeping well and warm – it’s strange this time of year, when we spoke last I was complaining that as we were fully into winter it was sometimes hard to tell the difference with time as the light was dropping at about 4pm in the afternoon… well...

Good morning, afternoon or even good evening – mind you as we are fully into winter now it is sometimes hard to tell the difference with the light dropping at about 4pm in the afternoon… there are days when you “leave in the dark and arrive home in the dark”?

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Hello to all of those out there far and wide that have been following the progress as I get closer and closer to the launch of my very special personal  project; Newcastle Old and New - the story so far? A “book” about the changing face of our fair city Newcastle upon...

A special hello to all of you out there especially those who have a keen interest or a fascination of all things Newcastle and also relating to the changing face of our proud and famous city.

I'm here to give you an update of the progress of my special “life changing” p...

As many will know at the very least from our normal ME PAT newsletters I have been nurturing a very unique ambition to publish and launch a book based on an old school project renamed "Newcastle Old and New: The Story So Far", this will take the form of a rewrite of a...