Links on this page will take you to that which I have already written - a

l...o...n...g

time ago.

Earlier on, I had these set up so folk could purchase complete version if they liked what they saw. Nearly 700 downloads, but not one purchase SO, these can now be read in their totality by following the links which will take you to where Google is storing my stuff in the sky.

You will need to have the DNL Reader on your system to read these. This can be downloaded from the link on the left of your screen. This enables the books, stories and poetry to be read as a virtual book - much easier on the eyes!

If you find some enjoyment within those pages, all I ask is that you remember this place when you want to go shopping! Thanks for reading so far - go and ENJOY.

PLEASE NOTE: re "The Whens of Wittenoom"

Wittenoom is a town in the Pilbara region of Western Australia.

I was living in Wittenoom during October to December 1994. Some of this time I was care-taking at the Old Convent which was used as a backpacker's hostel. One evening I listened to a distressed German medical student ask "How could she?" while staring into her hands. It turned out that the local shop keeper had pulled a piece of asbestos out of her pocket, rubbed it between her fingers under Maria's nose and claimed that the asbestos was harmless as none of her family had been affected. Maria knew enough to know that she had been forced to inhale invisibly small fibres of the kind which have been proven to be the cause for the vast majority of cases of mesothelioma.

Maria's distress was the trigger and I started compiling a chronology of all that was known of blue asbestos and the relationship to that which must be one of the most cruel forms of cancer.

What follows in "The Whens of Wittenoom" is as much information as I could find, trawling through medical journals and all those copies provided through the generosity of a cousin's son. In my usual style, I went at it head long and did not take the time to reference each item back to the relevant journal, but all the information contained within can be found within the Bibliography.

Back in 1994 I was still using cpm system on my laptop, employing a program I was lucky enough to know someone who knew how to translate/transfer to Windows. While all was not lost, there are some formatting quirks and for these I ask your forgiveness.

Being asked my consent to cite this work in a PhD thesis gives me the confidence to present this to you.