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Dealing With Ghosts, Part One: Some friendly advice for journalists, T.V....
Every few weeks I receive a phone call or email from an interested media person, wanting me to help them out with an article, documentary, occasionally a film and sometimes a series. In the past I have...
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The Presence and the Press: Once Again Science Journalists Tell Us Ghosts...
OK, I blog very rarely nowadays, but I thought I had best respond to all the press excitement caused by an article from Current Biology, which pretty much everyone (including the authors) seem to think...
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Boardgame Review: Pandemic – The Cure
Pandemic-The-Cure As Christmas approaches I guess now is an opportune time to remind people that last year I listed a number of great boardgames that people might seriously be glad to get in their...
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Boardgame Review: OGRE (Pocket Edition) by Steve Jackson Games
A 2 player game about a giant robot mega-tank (the OGRE) as it ploughs towards through the defenders killing everything in the way… Back in my school days in Bury St Edmunds, there was a little boat...
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RPG Review: Mars Colony, a 2 player Tabletop RPG by Tim Koppang
Can you save Mars? A 2 player RPG that is not an investigative game, and that does politics well… So this morning I found myself with the prospect of a free evening, and in a spirit of optimism I fired...
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Review: The Bermuda Triangle Mystery – Solved by Lawrence David Kusche
Book titles tend to be prone to hyperbole, but this 1975 book, one of my favourite books, does exactly what it says on the cover. It simply explains the Bermuda Triangle phenomena, and also teaches a...
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My Friend Fancies You – Gaming Romance
So I’m back from Peaky, the game writing weekend, after a few hours on site. I left at breakfast on the first full day, with a full refund and a lift to a train station, but still pretty dejected and...
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The Quest for the Historical Harry Price
Yes, it’s been a while. I find writing about most things nowadays superfluous – people can become absurdly well informed by reading Wikipedia, and people like me belong to an irrelevant generation of...
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Cthulhu, Fresh Flowers & Supermarket Shopping in Bury St Edmunds
“West of Arkham the hills rise wild, and there are valleys with deep woods that no axe has ever cut. There are dark narrow glens where the trees slope fantastically, and where thin brooklets trickle...
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Review: The New Ghostbusters Movie; or I ain’t fraid o no film!
[tl:dr: great film go see it] It all started with a moving candlestick flying across a room; that was how I got involved with the girly ghosthunter, who is now a parapsychologist with a Ph.D in...
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Pokémon Take Back The Night in Cheltenham?
It was about 2.30pm yesterday and a beautiful sunny afternoon; I was walking along Cheltenham High Street when I first noticed the two elegantly dressed, seemingly normal women. They were in their...
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Review: Continuum 2016, Games Convention in Leicester
WARNING: Many links contain sound. Don’t click on them if at work. Last week was spent on my annual holiday, this time spent visiting my parents in Suffolk and from Friday to Monday at Continuum, a...
View ArticleEulogy for John Francis Bull.
Today saw the funeral of my friend John Francis Bull. This was the eulogy I delivered… Two score and seven years ago John Francis Bull entered this world; and in his unassuming way, quietly and without...
View ArticlePhil Mansfield: Eulogy for John Francis Bull
A guest post, in which Phil shares his memories of a dear friend and founder member of the Nameless Anarchist Horde Bury gaming group… John Bull I have had the pleasure of knowing John since the early...
View ArticlePeter Clark: Memories of John Francis Bull
Peter has written a moving tribute to John Bull, our friend who died on Saturday 8th July 2017, aged just 47. I reproduce it here as a guest post. “I can’t adequately express how saddened I am by...
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The Great Gatwick UFO Mystery
So what do people think of the Gatwick UFO case? Because that is actually what it is — the alleged drone is by an unidentified flying object; the fact it is interpreted as a drone rather than aliens...
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Who Ya Gonna Call? The Problem with British Ghosthunting
This is going to be a controversial article, and is going to annoy a lot of people. It is about ghosts, and how we investigate them, and how we try to learn about the nature of paranormal phenomena....
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My Father: Eulogy for Gunnar Romer.
It is a year ago today since my beloved dad died in the West Suffolk Hospital. At his funeral my sister and I both delivered eulogies for dad, Gunnar Jensen Romer but the most moving thing was...
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Thoughts on a Global Pandemic (and my latest wild idea…)
It has been a long time since I last wrote: longer perhaps than it should have been. I don’t blog much any more, partly because my days are filled with things I should be doing, and I spend much of my...
View ArticleA Churchyard Story
It happened one November night in the town of Bury St. Edmunds. From Hardwick Heath to the Tollgate, from Eastgate street to Gibraltar Barracks the snow lay soft as make up on the cheek of a bride;...
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