I attended the Ramtique event at Pride Park today and was finally able to meet one of my literary heroes.

The man who wrote the book on Steve Bloomer that consequently inspired my own story.

My Father & The Lost Legend of Pear Tree.

I’ve actually known Peter Seddon for the last 10 years now having conversed with him on many occasion via email.

Today I met him for real and Steve Bloomer was watching on….as always

I went to my first Derby County Community Trust #TeamTalk get together yesterday.

Spending 2 hours chatting away with fellow fans whilst playing FIFA, Cards and Table Tennis together. There was even a Forest fan amongst us

I will be attending many more in the future.

It’s good to talk

I appeared at Whooverville X yesterday and met some great people.

Here I am with Paul Cornell. Paul and his Doctor Who story ‘Father’s Day’ appear in Part One of my own story. It was nice to chat to him and share my love of that particular episode and how much he meant to me as it was the last episode I ever watched with my father.

Here I am with a fellow Doctor Who fan by the name of Helena. She had already read Part One and was very much looking forward to reading Part Two. It was great to chat to her.

And here I am with the actor David Gooderson who played Davros in Destiny of the Daleks. Incredibly, I found out that he was born in Lahore. So in effect he is a Punjabi like myself. I had a good chat with him. A very nice man. He also once appeared in Lovejoy too.