Major Varieties Query/question?

[Peckris 579]

Win some lose some.That's life.

It is the ones you miss and the benefit of hindsight that keeps you going.

With varieties in virgin territories you have to to define your own.

Stuart...pen to paper (or finger to keyboard) time.

I have just finished my fourth Picture Book for children...does that count?

Been completing the illustrations in the small hours, the only time I've got for such things; very nearly ready to pack them all off to the big guns!

The Pumpy Grottum has turned out to be one of my favourite characters, with 'Moley and the Treetop Cafe' my favourite story!

It's good to hear about life outside collecting! I didn't know you were a kids' book illustrator Stuart? Perhaps we should ask Chris to set up a new forum, "What We Do When We're Not Collecting". I'm an amateur photographer but the members of that forum are far more talented than I, so I'm a bit shy there (no, no, really..).

As we're talking about life outside coins and outside coin books, I'll mention that I too have written a children's book, entitled 'A Calamity of Clutterbucks', including the illustrations. But getting it mainstream published is another matter. I also help my other half with self publishing her poetry books - I do the 'typesetting' and cover designs etc. - she does the poetic stuff.

Otherwise, I have an old Volvo P1800 that takes time and money on a grand scale to keep running, a garden that takes too much time and I play a Surdo (big bass drum) in a Samba band. My other great interest is songwriting, for which I have a Yamaha Motif synthesiser - so far 9 written and just one to go before I find a singer and go to the local studio to record them.

We could start a Writers forum within Predecimal! And considering that mine host is a publisher...

[Nick 329]

Hey, thanks, Peck...truly appreciated!

They say there's a novel in all of us, I've written 2 over the years, which I now call my 'education'! Interestingly, one was about C1 and Henrietta fleeing the land with hoards of coins, even before my major interest in coins, and long before Shardlake and the present trend in historical novels!

The gold and silver, meant for france, was finally buried on Steep Holme, where it still remains today!

Don't forget to finish YOUR novels one day!

Really. If there is one in me, it'll only be there because I've eaten it.