Radcliffe was worth a visit just to see the twelve stones by Ulrich Ruckriem, now with the addition of Alan Johnston's northern mirror sculpture to the same site, the Outwood Country Park is a special experience. Without exaggeration, Alan's sculpture is brilliant. I don't need to say much about it here, as the accompanying website is comprehensive, including Alan's voluminous research, image files and critical essays.
Welcome to Dudley
A change of pace for this blog. Meet our new arrival, Sir Dudley. Dudley to his friends.

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As per the last blog, the first novel of my post-UK period, The Family Idiots , is near enough finished (just proofing, etc) so I have mov...
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Having done virtually no research about Leiria before I arrived, I was very enamored with it - a very charming little town, given what I im...
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Back in 2005, I launched the International Text Festival in Bury, Manchester. It's aim was to question, curate, display, distribute, ar...