Liverpool born poet and writer Michael Walsh traces his Liverpool roots back to 1865. This was the year his Irish great-grandmother arrived in the Second City of Empire. His parents were born at the turn of what was to become the most tumultuous century in history. Michael's father, Patrick, fought in three major conflicts before reaching his fortieth birthday. His mother, Kathleen, was a former nun turned gun-running renegade.
On leaving school at 15 years of age, Michael spent 12 weeks at the Merchant Navy School for Sailors in Sharpness, Gloucestershire. During his years at sea, he was to visit and work in over 60 countries.
The journalist and broadcaster since provided articles and columns for numerous magazines and international news media. In 2011 he was awarded Writer of the Year by the publishers of Euro Weekly News, Europe's highest-circulation newspaper of its kind. He has authored, edited and ghosted over 70 book titles.
Ray Douglas Bradbury was an American author and screenwriter. One of the most celebrated 20th-century American writers, he worked in a variety of genres, including fantasy, science fiction, horror, mystery, and realistic fiction. Bradbury was mainly known for his novel Fahrenheit 451 and his short-story collections The Martian […]
THE TRAIL BENEATH THE TEARS (Farewell to Africa) . It was when the grind and grumble, Of those wagons passed this way, The colour sergeant’s bark was never meek, The sighing strain of steel, That was bound fast to the wheel, Was melody to rumble and to squeak. […]
An analysis of websites by a top online business entrepreneur shows a single spelling mistake can cut online sales in half. Charles Duncombe says ‘Poor spelling is costing the UK millions of pounds in lost revenue.’ He goes on to say: ‘I am shocked at the poor quality […]
Back in the day, Stallone was a struggling actor in every definition. At some point, he got so broke that he had no choice but to take his wife’s jewelry and sell it. Things got so bad that he even ended up homeless. Yes, he slept at the […]
In December 1984, a group of 3,000 beluga whales were trapped by ice in the Chukchi Sea, near Russia. The whales were confined to small open water ponds surrounded by thick, impassable ice up to 10 feet thick in some areas. Without access to larger areas of the […]
Twice this week, I have watched an elderly individual fade into the busy life in which we all live. One man just needed Panadol for his wife, but the shop assistant simply said it’s in ‘6’. He struggled to navigate the supermarket, and as I watched him go […]
Sputnik correspondent Russell Bentley died in Donetsk. The American–Russian news correspondent Russell Bentley, who collaborated with the Sputnik agency, has been killed in Donetsk, said Margarita Simonyan, editor-in-chief of the Rossiya Segodnya media group and RT television channel. ‘Russell Bentley, aka Texas and ‘the Donbas cowboy’, a real […]
CHURCHILL AND THE BOER WAR ‘There is only a means, the resistance of the Boers to break; namely the toughest oppression. In other words, we need to kill the parents, so that the children have respect for us.’ ~ Winston Churchill, Journalist, Morning Post. NOTE: Boer concentration camp […]
MA VOURNEEN . When time and distance separate us, Then you will find the spirit of our togetherness, In a glass of wine. My darling, Make it a long-stemmed glass, To remind you that even the minute apart is the longest one. Fill it to its very brim […]
An old man meets a young man who asks him: ‘Do you remember me?’ When the elderly man says no, he doesn’t remember him, the young man tells him he was his student, And the teacher asks: ‘Good! What do you do, what do you do in life?’ […]
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