Author: Patrick Thomas

Patrick Thomas always wanted to be a writer, but also wanted to be many other things. That led to a vastly complicated life with numerous adventures and even more mis-adventures in many places around the world, that still seem to happen. As an architect, he received possibly a wonderful back-handed compliment from the then Prince Charles: ‘I do like the way you do your demolition”. He has written two novels and countless other pieces, and would rather write some more, than start down that long road towards getting into print. His fantasy is to be commissioned to write a book about achieving Conviviality, in which he believes, and on Reincarnation, in which he would like to believe, He is married to Judy, with two great kids; but with only one now still alive.

Notes of Hope

Enough is enough: She was owned by stuff which didn’t work, Was past its best, Had dried up, Or was just plain useless.   Like her husband.   It was Armageddon.  As in: ‘I’m a-geddin’ outa here’. In boots made for walkin’. Which is just what they did Making tracks.   Felt like she was […]

Victory Roll

This was me; climbing up into the upper parts of a French barn and disturbing a swarm of wild bees.

A dozen or so stings on each arm, and two days dizzy with remedies from the pharmacy. But how did the bees feel about it?

A Portrait of the Artist as a Middle-aged Man

One of the many things he was not much good at, was shaving. His jowl: despite academic attention to the shaving industry’s advertising, and his own ceremonial attention to the ritual itself, now reminded him of A WW1 battlescape. Blasted trees, brimming craters and shell holes filled with blood. Not that he remembered the Great […]

Bushwhacked

This is a 100% true story. The return trip: 1000 miles without a cent to my name, was nearly as horrendous.