The natural Navigation: The Right Course, Naturally

A really great crowd came to my talk at the Oxford Literary Festival yesterday. The room was packed, which is always exciting. It did mean that the temperature levels rose as oxygen levels fell, but enthusiasm for the subject never waned. In this sense the admirable audience took the sun as their model, not the moon. Thank you to everyone who came to the talk and for making it one of those days that gives a writer a warm feeling, one that lasts outside the room, in the cool fresh air.

Book update… Amazon and Waterstones online are now restocked. The second reprint should be ready by next week, so any supply problems should start to ease then.

I have just found out what my plans for Sunday are, and they do not involve roast lunches, watching Narnia for the sixty-second time or trying to get our remaining stash of slightly green logs to burn.

At 2 o’ clock I am being interviewed by Adrian Phillips from Bradt Travel Guides at the Destinations Travel and Holiday Show in Birmingham.

Hope to see you there, or if you live a bit south of that (towards the midday sun) then perhaps at the Oxford Literary Festival on Wednesday 24th March? Or could it be that you like the taste of the Atlantic and can be found dreaming of Manderley, in which case I will look forward to our meeting at the Daphne du Maurier Festival on the 19th May.

More times and places – where I will be describing life without a copy of ‘The Natural Navigator’ book…

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Another enjoyable Beginner’s Guide to Natural Navigation course at the RGS yesterday. In attendance: a patent attorney, paraglider pilot, academic, film maker, doctor, retiree, vet, town planner and optical assistant to name a few.

Among the off-piste topics that we discussed there was talk of whether we sleep better aligned North-South than we do East-West and also the idea that the expression, ‘follow your nose’ may have some science behind it: humans have iron oxide in their sinuses which may account for some experiments that have shown a magnetic sense of direction in humans.

Lest I forget, I will be giving a series of talks to launch my book in March. The date and venue for my talk at the Oxford Literary Festival has been confirmed:

Wednesday 24/3 12:00, further details and tickets available here.

Hope to see you there!