OMG!!!!
I've had a bit of a break... well, maybe a looooooooong break from blogging but rediscovered this in my saved items.
So much has happened since the last post in 2015! I am not going to try to catch up all in one go!
Biggest thing for me was my beloved Leicester City winning the English Premier League for the first time in their history. We became only the 6th team to put our name on the trophy since the leagues were reformed in the early 90's and the first team to win it for the first time since Nottingham Forest back in the late 70's.
I'll admit, the whole season was a roller coaster. We had narrowly avoided relegation the season before and, after a preseason tour of Thailand which ended with the sacking of Nigel Pearson, our manager, we set into the new season hoping and praying that Claudio Ranieri would somehow complete another miracle and keep us up.
And keep us up he did. 3 defeats all season. We proved that a team can overcome a superstar and ended up winning the league by 10 points, surely disproving any "fluke" comment that was thrown our way.
It remains to the day, one of the happiest moments of my life. I've been a Fox since my Dad took me to Filbert Street in the old Double Decker stand to watch us beat a reigning champion Liverpool team 2-0. I was 9 years old. Jimmy Melrose was my hero. And my love of Leicester City began that day.
36 years later, they achieved a feat that no-one thought possible. I will admit that i cried the day that Wes Morgan lifted the trophy. I wasnt lucky enough to get to the ground, but my parents and nephew were there to see Andrea Bocelli perform at the King Power stadium. Being a classical music fan, it was simply another great moment, watching as the world watched. Nessum Dorma is an iconic football song, forever associated with Italia '90 and to hear one of the great tenors in history belt it out was fantastic.
Since then, my club entered the champions league and thats a story for the next post.
From a writing perspective, during this time, I completed the third book in the Alex Hayden Chronicles. "A Cauldron of Fire" was released on the 16th of June 2015 and continues the story of the teenage vampire and his friends as they battle a witch and Lord Clothar. I had fun writing this one, introducing new characters based on friends who were desperate to play a part. Making a dear female friend a witch and getting away with it was brilliant, and even more so that I believe she is a spitting image of Eva Green from Penny Dreadful. Please click on the here to be taken to the Amazon page.
Anyway, that's it for my first catch up. I am going to try to write one a week for the next few weeks to catch back upto date, trying to remember what happened, and my thoughts and feelings.
Once I have, more regular updates will follow.
Peace love and sausage rolls (Ladbaby is the greatest although a little early in the posts!!)
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