Tuesday, 3 February 2026

Flying

"The Vengeance Of Rome" by Michael Moorcock, the fourth and final part of the Pyat quartet, is coming to a close. Max is back in favour with the Third Reich and is flying his one-man airship for reconnaissance in Spain, but he, rather expectedly, gets shot down. He still manages to find an old acquaintance, and together they plan an escape.

While I will never read these books again, it has still been a strange and interesting journey. I still have two-thirds of this book to go.

I am still reading "Imajica" by Clive Barker on my Kindle. This is a book I never want to end. When I finish it, I just restart it.

I recently discovered that my American Amazon Author page has a feed from this blog, which you can see here. It only shows on the .com site but not on others. C'est la vie.

The music is "Flying" by The Faces


Mike Singleton - Vocal Stories

I am not sure if you are aware of my writing on Vocal, but these are a few of my stories if you would like to sample them:

  1. The Plagiaristic Poetry Series - Poems Taken From Random-Themed Lines
  2. Another Raven - A Take On Edgar Allen Poe's "The Raven"
  3. The Cleaner - An Autism-Focused Christmas Special
  4. The King Of Elfland's Daughter - A Wonderful Book By Lord Dunsany
  5. An Owl In A Towel - A Beautiful Book by Lesley and Cheryl
  6. Barter Books - An Amazing Bookshop In A Railway Station In Alnwick
  7. Three Reasons Why I Love Settle - Scaleber Force, The Hoffman Kiln and Castlebergh Crag
  8. The Accidental Book - Helping a Great Vocal Friend Resulted In Me Publishing My First Book
  9. Call Me Les - A Great Friend and An Amazing Writer, and this is her Instagram

Monday, 2 February 2026

Max In Dachau


"The Vengeance Of Rome" by Michael Moorcock, the fourth and final part of the Pyat quartet, now finds Max in jail in Dachau, and things are getting very bad for him. He has been betrayed by friends and is doing terrible things to stay alive. There are sixty pages to go before this is wrapped up ,and I will see how that happens this week.

While I will never read these books again, it has still been a strange and interesting journey. I still have two-thirds of this book to go.

I am still reading "Imajica" by Clive Barker on my Kindle. This is a book I never want to end. When I finish it, I just restart it.

I recently discovered that my American Amazon Author page has a feed from this blog, which you can see here. It only shows on the .com site but not on others. C'est la vie.

The music is "Dachau Blues" by Captain Beefheart


Mike Singleton - Vocal Stories

I am not sure if you are aware of my writing on Vocal, but these are a few of my stories if you would like to sample them:

  1. The Plagiaristic Poetry Series - Poems Taken From Random-Themed Lines
  2. Another Raven - A Take On Edgar Allen Poe's "The Raven"
  3. The Cleaner - An Autism-Focused Christmas Special
  4. The King Of Elfland's Daughter - A Wonderful Book By Lord Dunsany
  5. An Owl In A Towel - A Beautiful Book by Lesley and Cheryl
  6. Barter Books - An Amazing Bookshop In A Railway Station In Alnwick
  7. Three Reasons Why I Love Settle - Scaleber Force, The Hoffman Kiln and Castlebergh Crag
  8. The Accidental Book - Helping a Great Vocal Friend Resulted In Me Publishing My First Book
  9. Call Me Les - A Great Friend and An Amazing Writer, and this is her Instagram

 

Sunday, 1 February 2026

Why Donald Trump Does What He Does


Donald Trump has the mentality of an awful, spiteful five-year-old child and is never slapped down for what he does. 

Think what would happen if a kid steals, or nites another, and people just say, "Aw, you know what he's like" with no thought for his victims. He would keep doing it, and each day would get worse.

He breaks the law every day, and he lies every day, and people say he's not nice, but no one takes any action.

The two recent murders by his thugs were just an extension of his saying he could shoot somebody in the street and people would love him for it.

He is a disgusting individual, and the Democrats could have stopped this after the attack on the Capitol, but they didn't. Lots of words are said, but nothing is done.

He has surrounded himself with sycophantic thugs, and he is being allowed to get away with murder.

The Epstein files will prove him to be a rapist and worse, but why the hell the victims are not listened just smacks of legal misogyny.

I needed to say this, though it's pointless putting it on Vocal as I am not listened to there




Friday, 30 January 2026

Train To Italy (Or Spain)



In  "The Vengeance Of Rome" by Michael Moorcock, the fourth and final part of the Pyat quartet, I have less than a hundred pages to go (2,200), and Max is on a train to either Italy or Spain, who knows where. The books have actually been uneventful on a large scale, but have had a lot happening on the ground. I want to find out how Max ends up in his shop in London, but there are not that many pages to go, so who knows how that will happen.

While I will never read these books again, it has still been a strange and interesting journey. I still have two-thirds of this book to go.

I am still reading "Imajica" by Clive Barker on my Kindle. This is a book I never want to end. When I finish it, I just restart it.

I recently discovered that my American Amazon Author page has a feed from this blog, which you can see here. It only shows on the .com site but not on others. C'est la vie.

The music is "Freddie Laker" by Jean Jacques Burnel


Mike Singleton - Vocal Stories

I am not sure if you are aware of my writing on Vocal, but these are a few of my stories if you would like to sample them:

  1. The Plagiaristic Poetry Series - Poems Taken From Random-Themed Lines
  2. Another Raven - A Take On Edgar Allen Poe's "The Raven"
  3. The Cleaner - An Autism-Focused Christmas Special
  4. The King Of Elfland's Daughter - A Wonderful Book By Lord Dunsany
  5. An Owl In A Towel - A Beautiful Book by Lesley and Cheryl
  6. Barter Books - An Amazing Bookshop In A Railway Station In Alnwick
  7. Three Reasons Why I Love Settle - Scaleber Force, The Hoffman Kiln and Castlebergh Crag
  8. The Accidental Book - Helping a Great Vocal Friend Resulted In Me Publishing My First Book
  9. Call Me Les - A Great Friend and An Amazing Writer, and this is her Instagram

Thursday, 29 January 2026

A Jailbreak In Germany


"The Vengeance Of Rome" by Michael Moorcock, the fourth and final part of the Pyat quartet, and Max finally escapes his jail cell in Munich. Still, the SS are out looking for anyone to arrest, much like ICE in the USA today, so Max can't even get on a train to leave for safety.

While I will never read these books again, it has still been a strange and interesting journey. I still have two-thirds of this book to go.

I am still reading "Imajica" by Clive Barker on my Kindle. This is a book I never want to end. When I finish it, I just restart it.

I recently discovered that my American Amazon Author page has a feed from this blog, which you can see here. It only shows on the .com site but not on others. C'est la vie.

The music is "Jailbreak" by Thin Lizzy


Mike Singleton - Vocal Stories

I am not sure if you are aware of my writing on Vocal, but these are a few of my stories if you would like to sample them:

  1. The Plagiaristic Poetry Series - Poems Taken From Random-Themed Lines
  2. Another Raven - A Take On Edgar Allen Poe's "The Raven"
  3. The Cleaner - An Autism-Focused Christmas Special
  4. The King Of Elfland's Daughter - A Wonderful Book By Lord Dunsany
  5. An Owl In A Towel - A Beautiful Book by Lesley and Cheryl
  6. Barter Books - An Amazing Bookshop In A Railway Station In Alnwick
  7. Three Reasons Why I Love Settle - Scaleber Force, The Hoffman Kiln and Castlebergh Crag
  8. The Accidental Book - Helping a Great Vocal Friend Resulted In Me Publishing My First Book
  9. Call Me Les - A Great Friend and An Amazing Writer, and this is her Instagram

Wednesday, 28 January 2026

In The Jailhouse Now


"The Vengeance Of Rome" by Michael Moorcock, the fourth and final part of the Pyat quartet, now finds Max in jail in Berlin, a guest if the Nazis. It is moving very slowly, but you know there is no jeopardy as he wrote the book.

While I will never read these books again, it has still been a strange and interesting journey. I still have two-thirds of this book to go.

I am still reading "Imajica" by Clive Barker on my Kindle. This is a book I never want to end. When I finish it, I just restart it.

I recently discovered that my American Amazon Author page has a feed from this blog, which you can see here. It only shows on the .com site but not on others. C'est la vie.

The music is "In The Jailhouse Now" from "Oh Brother Where Art Thou"


Mike Singleton - Vocal Stories

I am not sure if you are aware of my writing on Vocal, but these are a few of my stories if you would like to sample them:

  1. The Plagiaristic Poetry Series - Poems Taken From Random-Themed Lines
  2. Another Raven - A Take On Edgar Allen Poe's "The Raven"
  3. The Cleaner - An Autism-Focused Christmas Special
  4. The King Of Elfland's Daughter - A Wonderful Book By Lord Dunsany
  5. An Owl In A Towel - A Beautiful Book by Lesley and Cheryl
  6. Barter Books - An Amazing Bookshop In A Railway Station In Alnwick
  7. Three Reasons Why I Love Settle - Scaleber Force, The Hoffman Kiln and Castlebergh Crag
  8. The Accidental Book - Helping a Great Vocal Friend Resulted In Me Publishing My First Book
  9. Call Me Les - A Great Friend and An Amazing Writer, and this is her Instagram

Friday, 16 January 2026

Back To 1930s Germany


"The Vengeance Of Rome" by Michael Moorcock, the fourth and final part of the Pyat quartet, now finds Max back in 1930s Germany, fantasising about his mechanical creations, which come from the realms of science fantasy and will never come to fruition. There have been some unsavoury incidents with Hitler, the less said about them the better.


While I will never read these books again, it has still been a strange and interesting journey. I still have two-thirds of this book to go.

I am still reading "Imajica" by Clive Barker on my Kindle. This is a book I never want to end. When I finish it, I just restart it.

I recently discovered that my American Amazon Author page has a feed from this blog, which you can see here. It only shows on the .com site but not on others. C'est la vie.

The music is "Girl From Germany" by Sparks



Mike Singleton - Vocal Stories

I am not sure if you are aware of my writing on Vocal, but these are a few of my stories if you would like to sample them:

  1. The Plagiaristic Poetry Series - Poems Taken From Random-Themed Lines
  2. Another Raven - A Take On Edgar Allen Poe's "The Raven"
  3. The Cleaner - An Autism-Focused Christmas Special
  4. The King Of Elfland's Daughter - A Wonderful Book By Lord Dunsany
  5. An Owl In A Towel - A Beautiful Book by Lesley and Cheryl
  6. Barter Books - An Amazing Bookshop In A Railway Station In Alnwick
  7. Three Reasons Why I Love Settle - Scaleber Force, The Hoffman Kiln and Castlebergh Crag
  8. The Accidental Book - Helping a Great Vocal Friend Resulted In Me Publishing My First Book
  9. Call Me Les - A Great Friend and An Amazing Writer, and this is her Instagram