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Blimey – and I think my son’s nuts for setting his sights on a bass that’s selling for £5K!

Mind you, he’s got one custom built bass, courtesy of Mr Squidge, and apparently he plans to build another custom ‘normal’ guitar this summer, so who knows what they’ll be worth in years to come…?

Wow. Magical stuff!

Great story telling, Daeds, congratulations.

Thanks, Squidge! Don’t worry – I’m not giving up. Thanks for the vote of confidence!

Congratulations, Daeds! Excellent story 🙂

Coming to this late…but hugs to both Hil and Janette… Agents can be beetles at times, can’t they? Fill us full of hope and then dash us down. We are stronger than they think though – we get back up and live to fight another day, and keep writing, whatever they say.
Hil, your writing is gorgeous, and you have deservedly got agent interest.…[Read more]

Fab news, Daeds, x

Great story, Daeds. Congratulations.

Well done Daeds, a powerful example of your writing and story-telling.

Excellent News. I loved that story!

Fantastic news. A great story. Very thoughtful and moving.

Complacency and casual disregard for human life ain’t the half of it, sometimes.

I mentioned above that the Railways Inspectorate had a battle in the nineteenth century to get fail-safe brakes adopted. They were up against not only reluctance to spend money – the so-called automatic vacuum brake was more complicated (and therefore more e…[Read more]

Another interesting blog, Richard, thank you.

Jeez that’s some incident. I did not know about this at all – thanks for telling the story so vividly, Richard!
It just shows that human nature – our inability to foresee and avert disaster until something truly catastrophic has happened – is unchanged over the years/decades/centuries.

It certainly is. Mindboggling that such a catastrophe could have come about through a momentary lapse by a single person. Less mindboggling that the means of preventing such a catastrophe had long existed but not been implemented.

As Ath says, the parallels between this incident, along with many of the others you’ve written about over the y…[Read more]