Author: alastairswinnerton

I've been an animation scriptwriter for thirty years now, and my first novel, 'The Multiverse of Max Tovey', was published in 2015. The new one, 'The Flying Monk', a comedy fantasy set in Malmesbury, Wiltshire, a town so full of magic and myths it has a 666 area code.

Snowdrops

February 2, 2020

Just thought I’d add this to the social media snowdrop avalanche… Riverside Walk, January 30th. To paraphrase Churchill, it isn’t the beginning of spring, but it may be the beginning of the end of winter.

Pointless pre-assessment with an unexpected benefit

January 31, 2020

For some reason I had an appointment for an anaesthetic pre-assessment today, even though no operation has yet been scheduled, presumably because they hadn’t had the results of Monday’s MRI. But I went along anyway, hoping they did have the results, and the ‘simple’ bowel op had been scheduled, meaning the liver spot was no … More Pointless pre-assessment with an unexpected benefit

Light and shade

January 28, 2020

I love winter – what a difference a day can make. One day it’s brilliant sunshine, the next the world is engulfed in mist, as you can see from these photos of the Riverside Walk, taken only a few days apart. One day the trees are thrown into knife-edge contrast by the cold blue sunlit … More Light and shade

Scanning Bernard

January 27, 2020

MRI first thing this morning, which are never fun. To be fair it’s only my second, the first was a head and neck one a few years ago when they were trying to work out whether or not I had Meniers Disease – I didn’t, it turned out, just a junior version called BPPV, a … More Scanning Bernard