Hello

from Jo

Like many people my age, I'm haunted by the spectre of how good things used to be. I get round this by pretending to be my own grandson. I jump in puddles, ride my bike and don't believe a word real life tells me. For more than half a  century I've carried my childhood in my rucksack. Apart from a few senior dribbles and the odd mechanical frailty, it seems to be working.

Of the 14 books I've written, some are autobiographical and some fiction. Running through them, a touch of humour.

My wife, Jan, and I have navigated life's highways by boat, bike and van. So far we've manged to outrun the grim reaper - just.

In varying degrees of comfort we continue to roam.

Click here for links to all my books

Directly below is my current project, and boy, what a ride that has been.

You can read the opening salvo by

clicking 'HERE' or the button below

Believe it or Not!

Out of the blue I came across this quote:

“God is the name of the blanket we throw over the mystery to give it shape.”

We've travelled on boats, vans and bikes, but now my brain rumbled into life and I began a voyage of a different kind. This one spiritual.

I wrote it all down and the result is a book:

It's been a fascinating journey, one I think many people take, particularly as the years roll by.

Pretty drastically, it was during a children's carol service that I began my excommunication from all things religious. There's a magic about children singing carols, but is the nativity narrative true or hyped or bunkum?

Troubling questions emerged. Why did nobody listen when I frantically prayed during my Mum's miserable demise?

Is there something after our time on earth? It would be a shame if our lives were all in vain, rather like painting the inside of our own coffin - neither we nor anybody else will benefit.

I researched, soul-searched, talked, read and watched. Then wrote it all down, and what emerged was both amazing and surprising.

It's all subjective of course, not definitive.

My new journey covers:

• Personal Experiences

• The History of different Religions

• Modern Science and evolution

• Philosophy

• Scriptures - The Bible, The Quran and others

• Religions influence

• Who created what, when and how

• Do I need (a) Religion / Do I need (a) God?

Did you know ???

The Catholic and Protestant Bibles are different lengths

The 3 Biggest Religious Groups are Christianity, Islam and 'Unaffiliated'

The Bible took 1500 years to write, edit and ratify

Catholicism started 33 CE, Islam 610 CE, Protestantism 1517 CE. (CE = AD)

Between the ages of 12 and 30 there is no record of Jesus in The Bible

I've compiled it all into a medium-length book called:

Believe it or Not!

Have a sneak peek.

It's free to a good home.

The book will be published shortly. Problem is, my editor is a devout Christian so on some points we'll have 'diverging opinions'. He'll either red-slash the whole thing and chuck it in the bin or perform under sufferance for a small fee.