THE SKINNER

Last week was pretty good with a word count above 5,000 but still, sadly below my target of 10,000. I think I missed recording one day so ...

Okay, that’s the final page proofs of Infinity Engine gone through and sent back to Macmillan. I’ll just say that I haven’t copped out on ...

I’ve finally turned it around. The latest book, written intermittently over the last couple of years, was a mess. I’ve said before how I j...

Thanks to John Lewis for these. Here are some Polity timelines he put together... Thanks John!

Here's the British version... And here's the American version...

Well, the exercise at the gym has been knackering me. I’ve done an hour plus in the morning seven out of the last eight days. I’ve then co...

I’m back in England early this year for a couple or reasons I either cannot or will not talk about here. What I will say, however, is that...

I see that it’s been two months since I last blogged. So, time for an update. I’ve been doing plenty of walking in the mountains a...

While I ramble away here, let’s enjoy some pictures... Anyway, I’ve been back on Crete now for two weeks. To begin with, because o...

When I came back to Crete my depression was over but I was still getting anxiety and panic attacks. Over a month it has been standard for ...

Last week I bought my domain name nealasher.co.uk. It was almost an impulse buy, at the time, though it was something I had been thinking ...

There’s a saying attributed to various people but mostly to Anton Chekhov: "If in the first act you have hung a pistol on the wall, t...

Here's an old one from 2011. Time now for another one so, if you have questions you would like to see me answering in a video clip pl...

Now moving steadily away from the previous posts, since I’ve become a bit of a bore on the subject. Really REALLY time to start cheering u...

Okay, the prior post on here was not my last on the subject of grief, depression, anxiety and panic attacks because I really need to deliv...

This will be my last blog or post to FB about grief, depression, anxiety and panic attacks. I know that following my journey through this ...

Here’s some stuff to date because I am finishing with this. I will explain why in my next blog post… Feb 11 th Mmm, a problem in dea...

For 17 days now I’ve been looking at photographs. It has been wiping me out constantly and there has not been a day when I haven’t cried. ...

Here below is the my last week of posts on FB concerning ‘processing grief’. A couple of people have mentioned that it comes in waves and ...

I have now been looking at photographs of Caroline, and forcing myself to remember, for about two weeks. And I wonder about the workings o...