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 course its Easter!! Thanks for following me on the progress of this very special personal book project of mine; “Newcastle Old and New - the story so far”, I am pleased to say though to all of my Newcastle book

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”? Thank you for following the progress of this very special personal project; Newcastle Old and New - the story so far? A “book” about the changing faces of our fair city Newcastle upon Tyne, which was originally written b

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 Tyne and a tale that takes me back 38 years to my dark days at school where I struggled with dyslexia and that this book I created was the only proof I had in that I wasn’t as stupid as constantly told by my tea

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” project to launch a book later this year. Also I plan to reveal a few little sections and snippets of some of the stories [this month feature the “Dog Leap Stairs” and the Millennium Bridge] that will be include

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 “book” from 38 years ago comprising of about 20 stories from the original project and something like 15-16 linked postscripts, poems and funny stories all to do with the fair city of Newcastle upon Tyne. The off