Fuchsia Box

Hi, I have been busy during the last few weeks preparing to move house, so I have had little time to do any writing. However, I have managed to do a bit of scroll work on my saw and I thought you might like to see the results of my efforts.

I did the design myself which is based around my wife's favourite flower. I hope you like it.

Mad Mad World

Hi All,
This world is getting crazier and crazier.

A couple of weeks ago, we decide to buy a new car and to finance the deal we decided to cash in some bonds that were gaining very little in the way of interest. Anyway, we put the certificates in an envelope and posted them off to be cashed in. The whole thing was supposed to take a maximum of 8 days so that's when we arranged to pick up the car.

How silly were we expecting the money to arrive on time. Well to be honest some of it did and some of it didn't, but being as the certificates all went in the same envelope we were a little concerned. My wife rang the bonds people and this is what she was told.

"A machine opens all the envelops and it only expects to find one piece of paper. If there was more than one certificate in the same envelope it will probably of destroyed the rest."

No we couldn't believe it either, but they promised to look into it. Today we received a letter from the bonds people repeating what had been said on the phone. They also gave us a form to fill in and on the bottom of it this is what it said.

"Please insert the form and any certificates into the envelope provided and return."

Is it me or what? If the machine only expects to find 1 piece of paper in every envelope, why ask people to put certificates into the envelope?

Regarding the car, we managed to scratch enough money together to pay for it, but we are hoping the bonds people get their act together so that we can get straight. I will not be investing any money with them again.

On  lighter note, one of my books BossyBoots is available for a free download for the rest of September 2013.

If you would like a free copy just pop over to smashwords, type Bossyboots into the search box and at the check out enter coupon code VG74R.

Happy reading

Free Book

Hi all,
This is only a short post, but I wanted to let you know that I am am giving away one of my books for free.

"No Fishing In Here: Just Short Stories"  is a step away from my usual fishing stories, but hopefully you will find it entertaining. It contains 12 short stories that cover various topics like revenge, denial and humour each of which will will tug on your emotions.

The offer is at smashwords.com and is available to download in versions that will suit most e-readers.

To claim you free copy please click here and type in coupon code CP64V at the check out.

I hope you enjoy it and look forward to any comments on its content.