World Poetry Day 2025

It’s the UNESCO World Poetry Day today. This year’s theme is Peace and Unity. It’s also the 21st day of Ramadan, and I have secluded myself for the next 10 days in a masjid to seek peace within myself and oneness with the Almighty. In keeping with the day and theme, I will try and […]

COVID DIARY DAY 9130

It’s been 5 years since the lockdown. The human world was virtually under house arrest. The natural world 🌎 took a sigh of relief. Dolphins were spotted swimming in the Bosphorus, deer and mountain goats were seen roaming the streets of Britain and nature reserves saw a boom in animal populations. Introverts were supremely happy […]

We Are Living in a Dystopian World

There was a time when we used to read dystopian fiction as if it was a crystal ball that could reveal potential pitfalls of a future gone wrong. There are the classics like George Orwell’s 1984, Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World and Philip K. Dick’s Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep, as well as newer […]

Book Review: The Heroes by Joe Abercrombie

My rating: 4 of 5 stars Black Dow and the Northmen have becoming a thorn in the Union’s side. The Union is getting pushy and starting to encroach on land held by Black Dow. There’s only one way to settle this . . . FIGHT!!! Craw and his dozen have been sent to secure a […]

Book Review: Rayne Hall’s Writing Fight Scenes

Rating: 3/5 Knowing how to write a good fight scene for a fantasy author is the equivalent of knowing how to write a love scene for a romance writer. We are constantly told to write what we know about, and yet most of us have never really been in a fight or had some kind […]