by Charlie | Aug 24, 2017 | Uncategorized
Now, you know me, any chance to say hats off to the shipping forecast and I’m all over it like Donald Trump’s golf slacks over his ginormous behind. Yet today is an exception. There are stories in the news hailing this day as the 150th anniversary of the shipping...
by Charlie | Jul 19, 2016 | Uncategorized
In 1992 I went interrailing with my friend Paul. We’d spent most of our money on the tickets so planned to save what little cash we had left by sleeping on overnight trains whenever we could. We soon developed a routine of arriving at a station in the evening, looking...
by Charlie | Feb 4, 2015 | Uncategorized
A MEETING IN A MEETING ROOM Editor: OK, I can’t sit on this any longer – we’ve got a new Harper Lee novel! Sales/Marketing person 1: Harper..? Editor: Harper Lee! To Kill A Mockingbird! Sales/Marketing person 2: OK… S/M1: Is there not already a book called that?...
by Charlie | Aug 13, 2014 | Uncategorized
With suicide in the news at the moment, it was by some coincidence yesterday that I happened to stumble across a particularly sad instance from the late eighteenth-century that took place practically on my doorstep. According to newspaper reports from the time a...
by Charlie | Jul 24, 2014 | Attention All Shipping, Uncategorized
Now then. I’ve done a few events in my time, from lecturing at the Royal Geographical Society to an hour-long book signing at Aberdeen airport during which I signed not a single book (but pointed a couple of people towards the check-in desks). This one is different....
by Charlie | May 24, 2014 | Uncategorized
The summer of 1990: the World Cup, World In Motion, Big Jack’s Army and all the rest of it. I’d come back from my first year at university needing a job to tide me over until the autumn and I got one – washing up in the kitchens of Bromley Hospital. The work was hard...
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