A Brief History Of Lies A survey of a wicked, irreverent, serious, harmful, cruel and enjoyable (for some) side of human civilisation. Including quotes on lies and lying (good, bad and indifferent) from famous people who should know better. I wrote this book because of the new research carried out in 2005 and now improved…
Cartoons
I decided a while back that the perfect way to complete A Brief History Of Lies would be to add some cartoons to the book. Nothing complicated simple black and white drawings – but humorous. Since one of my friends told me the book was ‘ a bit dark’ when talking about how we lie…
Rock Running
Growing up in a coastal village in Cornwall the beaches obviously became a favourite playground. When the tide ebbs and ribbons of rock glisten with fresh sea water, seaweed, shell fish and rock pools the adventure of looking, searching, getting wet and clambering slowly transform over the year into a knowledge of not what lives…
The Sea
The child in the man
2010
We concentrate too much on time passing.
A Brief History Of Lies
This book started as an idea in December 2008. I thought at the time it would be a popularist book and that someone must have written something like it, but when I researched I found a lot of books on lies in particular areas and a few seriously academic books but nothing light-hearted, easy read…
Connections
Words pander to the literate. In doing this weblog I do not want it to become a kind of psychoanalysis, something to which I am not much given. Many years ago my mother told me that Ted Hughes used words as a form of therapy for some darkness within him. The reason why he is…
And then there was me…
I could say this is all new to me but words are my life and no place where words flow could ever be alien to me. It is more strange to be setting up a weblog that is principally about my work. Advertising has never been my forte but here it is, and here I…