A compendium of things you didn't know, you thought you knew, you didn't want to know and things you didn't even know that you didn't know.A second book of answers to questions you didn't ask and to which you didn't even know you wanted the answers until you picked up this book. Why are the London Docks empty? What is Godwin's Law? Who were the Children of Lir? Why did the Allies paint white stripes on the wings of their aeroplanes for D Day? Why did I spend good money buying this book?All these questions are answered, along with many, many more (OK, maybe not that last one, but definitely all the others). A storehouse of treasures for you to cherish and argue about in the pub. The perfect accompaniment to "I'm So Glad You Asked Me That".What (I imagine) readers have said about "I'm So Glad You Asked Me That Again":"I feel so happy that I now know the answers"."I amazed that someone actually took the time to answer that stupid question.""Robert who?""Maybe it doesn't answer the question of the answer to life, the universe and everything - but it gets mighty close".
Bob was born in Edinburgh in December 1951. His father was a professional soldier and the first few years of Bob's life was spent travelling around the world with his family. During his first 15 years he lived in Edinburgh, Austria, Malaya, Enfield, Leigh-on-Sea, Maldon (the Essex one), Harlow and Peckham.
In 1968 Bob Joined the Royal Air Force as an apprentice electronics technician and spent the next 23 years travelling the world and enjoying all that service life had to offer. Places visited included Oman (a small island by the name of Masirah), Cyprus, Malta, Holland, Germany and various parts of the UK. During this time he met and married Bernadette and produced three children, Ewan, Tara and Sinead. He retired from the RAF in 1991.
Following on from this Bob took up new employment with Royal Mail as part of their logistics team and stayed with them until 2009. After that he returned to his roots and took up a position with the Ministry of Defence at their logistics facility at Bicester, Oxfordshire, before leaving to take up full time writing 2012.
Bob has always been keen on writing and had tried his hand at various projects over the years, but the need to earn a crust had always interfered with his desire to be more creative. Over the past ten years Bob has produced a considerab;e body of work, including a 9 book sci-fi series under the collective title of "The Magi". He has just published the 5th book of a World War II series set around the Army Commandos (predecessors of the Royal Marine Commandos) under the series title of "Carter's Commandos".
His work is published by Selfishgenie Publishing.
In his spare time Bob enjoys playing golf, is a member of a pub skittles team and is an avid supportero of Northampton Saints rugby team