I know that this is coming a bit late to some, but if you’re still looking for a gift for the Paramedic in your life, here’s a few ideas: Streamlight stylus pen torch – £25 – Amazon.co.uk With a metal casing, this torch eschews quality. Batteries last for ages and because it’s metal its of…
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December 9, 2011 by
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This website was launched on Thursday December 4th, 2008, with my initial post, Snapshots. As a Birthday celebration I asked Jon (my website guy) to pull some facts and figures out of the analytics for the website. Here’s what he came up with. Aside from the homepage, the most popular page on the site is…
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Coincidentally, and just in time for my birthday (It was my 21st birthday, just in case you were wondering but were too polite to ask) my very own signed copy of ‘Police, Crime and 999’ by John Donoghue arrived in the post this week. This is the sort of thing that happens in my life…
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I was recently interviewed for Ambulance Today magazine – here is a direct link to the online PDF version of the magazine. I was interviewed by the editor, Declan Heneghan, about my career – starting from my job in the circus, which regular readers of this website will know all about! For those of you…
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Strangely, what first attracted me to The Nicholas Effect was the simple fact that it was predominantly set in Italy, rather than its actual subject matter. However, I have always had an interest in organ donation and regularly give blood when my shifts allow, so this added to my curiosity about the book. Reg Green,…
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I had a wonderful time at the book signing in Waterstone’s. My daughter Katie helped me to sign copies of the books and she seemed to thoroughly enjoy every minute of it. It was just fantastic to see so many people come along to buy the book – even a couple of my lovely young…
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As I write this, I am wondering if I shall sleep at all tonight. I am thinking about the book signing tomorrow at Waterstone’s and I’m getting more than a little anxious; what if no one turns up? I’ll be sat there on my own … Well hopefully I can rely on my daughter Katie,…
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It’s only two weeks to go now until September 12th and I am so excited already – why? Because it will be the book signing for my second book “Katie the Paramedic” at Waterstones book store in the Whitgift Centre in Croydon. In case you didn’t know already, “Katie” worked in a circus before she…
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Late last week I received the proof copy of my new book, Katie the Paramedic. It looks great! Here is the cover: Now available to pre-order! More exciting news … the book is now available to pre-order at Amazon and all good bookshops! I would also like to thank AuthorHouse for their help in getting…
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Alluded to in my extra post last Monday, here is a short teaser of my second book! This book is different to the last — it is a fiction book for children. This is the first page of the book … Katie had grown up in the circus. She travelled all around the world with…
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