Hello Listeners

I'm back from my holidays and about to resume work on Underwood and Flinch. I had a very nice time; spent a week at the beach and a week in my Spanish house (much of which was taken up with D.I.Y. tasks like painting walls and fixing toilets). My wife and I took a some pictures which I'll be posting somewhere online soon. The picture below is taken in 'Almacena' and shows the kind of street that Underwood will soon be out and about in.

Comments are now on again, but they are to be moderated by a third party. So if you don't see your comment immediately, that's because the moderator hasn't passed it. To clear the moderator's eye, posts need to be clean, free of plot speculation and spoilers, and be inoffensive to others - especially me.

Thanks for your patience. It's nice to be back (though I have to admit, I'd rather be writing the book in Spain - Ireland is pretty brrrrrrrrr to come home to in September

'Almacena' after midnight.

Hello listeners

Some of you may have noticed that the comments facility has been turned off. This is a temporary feature which I've put in place while I go off on holiday because I won't will be around to follow comments for three weeks and so will be ignorant of what is being said in them.

Un-checked commenting is something I want to avoid, for legal reasons if nothing else. Potentially offensive or libellous comments, either to me or to another user, can't be allowed to go un-checked as I'm sure you'll agree.

Upon my return I will re-activate comments, as I will again be in a position to moderate them.

And now, I'm packing my bucket and spade and leaving. See you in three weeks.

p.s. I'll send you a postcard.

After 50 years, the hour of Lord Underwood's resurrection is finally at hand.

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Dear Site Users

This is a special release for the listeners who frequent my websites, are members of the Facebook Fan Page or who follow me on Twitter. I know that Episode 16 is taking a long time, but it is underway now and I have recorded and edited the first scene. I could leave it until the whole episode is complete before I release anything, but I feel a certain obligation to those of you who are kind enough to closely follow my endeavours, so I've put the first scene together in a "minisode" that won't be available in the main U&F feed. It's a special preview for the faithful only. Something to tide you over until the rest of the episode arrives - hopefully in a fairly short while.

As always, I thank you for your patience :-)

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MBP.com member, The Glove, has submitted a great charcoal drawing of the opening scene from Hall of Mirrors: Night Crossing, the story - and scene - that introduces Underwood and Flinch. I love the cat ;-)

Just because I didn't shoot this yesterday, doesn't mean it isn't worth bumping to the front page again :-)

Hall of Mirrors 1 (Trolls): Happy Ending Version (2008)

You may recall in One Among the Sleepless that Mick and Sally had a couple of dates in Brighton's Pavilion Gardens, but you may also have wondered: what is Brighton Pavilion and it's gardens? Well on a recent trip to Brighton, I took a few snaps of the Pav and its grounds and Jason Admin has posten them here on the One Among the Sleepless page (click link above) in a little 'lightbox gallery'. Check it out, it's neat - and you can see where Mick fed the pigeons.

Good news (for me anyway :-) I just checked the stats at Hall of Mirrors' Mevio feed and added up the downloads to-date. They come to 534,700 - that's over a half a million. Woo-hoo! And this figure doesn't include the stats from the Libsyn Feed (Collected Podcasts - the one that currently hosts U&F). HoM has been in that feed for about a year now, but I don't have any stats for the feed because I'm too cheap to pay the new Libsyn subscription rates that include stats. Anyway, that's neither here or there. Now it's time celebrate by cracking open a cup of tea and chilling out with a half-hour or so of Time Shift on the X-Box. I love Time Shift: "Look out, he's got a crossbow!" ... Thunk!

Now for the next half-million downloads.