Dave's Blog

Since the start of the Covid situation here in the UK I have been receiving an alarming number of emails pumped out from Westminster and associated offices. The current total stands at  a whopping 2787! How many people and man / woman hours has it taken to create that amount of content,  write those emails, send them out and deal with any responses they create. ...... and if anyone can calculate that figure, how much has it all cost us - the ones who pay for it all through our taxes? I think that figure is likely to be bigger than "all the numbers" (as my daughter used to say) Have a fantastic day DAve x

Does anyone know who to send a treatment to for publications that are rooted in the world of entertainment?                                  I am currently writing a collection of short factual stories that I have drawn from my career in the entertainment business.  Ranging from my meetings with Royalty and the Aristocracy - to meeting a womble! If you do know of a publisher that might be interested please click here -  drop me an email

Those of you who don't really know me (yet) are probably blissfully unaware that apart from having an interest in many odd and off the wall things, one of my main loves is to write song lyrics  and / or poetry.  I began this at an early age by writing lyrics (and at the age of 15 (ish) I was called at home* by none other than George Harrison ( yes The Beatle!!! )  and complemented on the lyrics of a song that he had heard. That spurred me on and during the years since I have been fortunate enough to have quite a number of songs published, recorded by other artists and in addition I have a number of poetry books currently in print. This poem is one that dates from 2016 and was inspired by a trip to one of my absolute favourite places in England - GLASTONBURY. It subsequently became a song..................and I still perform it live during some of my gigs  Somerset Levels Walking alone on the Somerset Levels I spied a tramp with a steely grey eye He ...

Picture by Tony Edmonds It is a number of  years since I qualified as a coach, a therapist and became an author and although I have  been blogging for ages I feel that I have been saying very little about me as a person ! Yes I have been writing many words, posting plenty of pictures and generally enjoying  being the author of a number of very successful posts. However, lately I have been posting daily illustrations of my thoughts and the stats for those posts over the past month have been very encouraging and they indicate that more people are looking at those than are viewing some of my other posts, which although carefully crafted, have been based on other people's thoughts and posts. So I have considered this carefully and concluded that whilst my other blogs perform specific tasks, none of them, including the Under Blue Skies one, reflect who I am personally.     That said, I read a piece on Instagram this morning about wr...