Blog – Tom Atkins

You’ve Got to Have a Dream

29 July 2021 No Comments

Tom Atkins My Great Misadventure Tom’s Blog Musings from everyone’s favourite accident-prone author. You’ve Got to Have a Dream You gotta have a dream. If you don’t have a dream, how you gonna make a dream come true? Oscar Hammerstein It may be a simple old song with a corny title, but the sentiments are so true. Humans have an incredible ability to look ahead, plan, have visions, A desire to have or make something better, whatever it may

How France Invented the Party!

8 July 2021 No Comments

Do you know the real story of France’s Bastille Day and the Revolution that it celebrates? Read on to discover the gripping tale…

Le Tour de France: Tom’s Guide

23 June 2021 No Comments

Cycling around the contours of France’s wonderful countryside is one of life’s great pleasures. Read this blog to discover how Le Tour de France evolved from this gentle pastime.

Coiled Boa Constrictor with one eye open

Lunch with a Boa Constrictor in Singapore

16 June 2021 No Comments

Tom Atkins My Great Misadventure Tom’s Blog Musings from everyone’s favourite accident-prone author. Lunch with a Boa Constrictor in Singapore The nineteen eighties were a traumatic time for the British Newspaper Industry and the people working in it. Me, being one of them. The ‘old school’ wealthy English proprietors, fed up with constantly battling with the strong printing trade unions, were only too eager to part with their newspaper titles. This led to a new breed of owners

The Interview

19 May 2021 No Comments

My time in Africa had resulted in bills piling up with no means of paying them. Fortunately, an interview I attended before Africa led to an opportunity I recieved for a surprising reason…

India – Still a Wonderful Place

5 May 2021 No Comments

A surprising turn of events in India in 1996 involving a bevy of celebrities. Written out of respect for the difficult time India is experiencing.

Just Call Me Lucky

7 April 2021 1 Comment

I have been an accident waiting to happen all my life! It started at the age of 2 when I gripped the heating coil of an old electric fire just after it had been switched on. What happened to my hand? Most of my inner hand and fingers on my left hand were slowly and painfully burnt off to the bone.

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