Maybe it -should- happen to a vet

All aboard! All aboard the Orient Express!


Yes, it's officially my least imaginative blog title ever (and it's up against some pretty stiff competition, believe me)

This is a quick post to mention that my new novel, The Express Diaries, has now been officially announced by Paul.

The Express Diaries is a novelisation of the Yoggies... idiosyncratic play-through of Horror on the Orient Express - a pulp ...

Regular readers of my blog will probably be aware by now that the tone of my posts tends to vary wildly between flippant and maudlin - sometimes even within the same post. I'm going to be honest; this isn't one of the flippant ones. Consider yourself warned.

'Experience is the name everyone gives to their mistakes' - Oscar Wilde

There's a nice little word that you can use in medical terminology - you may have heard it before. I may even have mentioned it in the blog ...

With a clattering of iron wheels, a sinister plume of smoke, and a slightly-less sinister chuff-chuffing noise, The Express Diaries edges closer to it's terrifying final destination - your brain!

And so, it's time to tease you a little more with a few glimpses into my new novel. They say a picture paints a thousand words - so here's a whole short-story's worth from Eric's easel...



Ms. Grace Murphy - young spinster, secretary ...

Tags: hotoe, orient express, the express diaries, writing

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‎ Call of Cthulhu , ‎ Literature , ‎ YSDC

'He who smelt it...would forever be the one who DEALT IT!'

It occurs to me that, as I am the author of this post, the title implies that I am, in fact, an idiot. I'll leave you to make your own minds up about that one. Anyway, I've been meaning to do a short series on internal organs for a while - don't ask me why, you may as well question why I write this blog at all - and that is dangerous territory, my friend.

All right, if you ...

Tags: organs, spleen, veterinary

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Just a quick heads up that in the UK on Monday, at 9pm, BBC4 will be showing a follow-up documentary to the 2009 'Pedigree Dogs Exposed'. I have pretty strong feelings about the suffering caused by dog breeders (you can read some of my thoughts in my recent post, Breeds Apart) - and I can still remember sitting and watching the original programme with my wife. We were both overjoyed - not by the content, which was pretty horrible - but because someone was finally saying the things that we had wanted ...

Tags: breeding, dogs, veterinary

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