Thomas PC Craven...Author and poet.

TAM'S NEXT BOOK "BONNIE SCOTLAND" AND DVD CALLED "TAM CRAVEN LIVE FROM BONNIE SCOTLAND" WILL BE LAUNCHED AT LOCH LOMOND SHORES, BALLOCH, ON THE 13TH OF SEPTEMBER. AND AT THE COFFEE SHOP, CLACHAN OF CAMPSIE, NEAR LENNOXTOWN ON THE 14TH SEPTEMBER 11.AM TO 4.PM THE DVD WAS FILMED ON LOCATION AT.LOCH LOMOND SHORES BALLOCH,THE WAVERLEY AND THE WESTERN ISLES, DUMBARTON ROCK, WALLACE MONUMENT, STIRLING CASTLE, COFFE SHOP AT CLACHAN OF CAMPSIE, ANTERMONY LOCH, THE SQUINTY BRIDGE, THE CLYDE. THE BROOMIELAW, ST ANDREW'S MARKET, THE MAUCHLINE HOLY FAIR AND AYR TOWN HALL, AND MORE...... TAM WILL BE AT LOCH LOMOND SHORES, BALLOCH, ON SATURDAY 30TH OF AUGUST AND SUNDAY 31ST AND 6TH AND 7TH OF SEPTEMBER, THE 13TH AND, 20TH 21ST AND 27TH AND 28TH. YOU CAN ALSO ORDER ON LINE. tamcraven@yahoo.co.uk Welcome to INSIDE A SNOWDROP...... "THROUGH AND THROUGH" is a 100 verse poem now available on line with five poems from Saltcoats poet Ian Morrison. BUY ANY BOOK AND GET ONE FREE, WHEN YOU BUY ON LINE I If you happen to be in EIRE you can buy my books in LETTERKENNY, DUNGHLOE, DONEGAL TOWN, SLIGO, and GALWAY book shops. And in THE FIELDS OF ATHENRY GIFT SHOP, ATHENRY and BALLINASLOE. My next book, which I have just started, was inspired by a walk I had in the hills of Donegal, I have never been in a more beautiful place in my life, and if you get a chance, GO, for you will love it. new book is called. "LIGHTS OVER DONEGAL" More on Tam's books at..... www.friendsofalandoherty.com Please visit this web site, it is Alan Doherty's. His friends are trying to raise money so that he can have an operation to get a new chin. Hopefully he can get enough to go to Mount Sinai Hospital in New York in october. His ambition is "TO BE ABLE TO EAT A MEAL AND HAVE A DRINK FOR THE FIRST TIME IN MY LIFE" http://www.glesga.ukpals.com/profiles/tamcraven.htm click adverts at above site

	Hello to the World Wide Web!! If somebody had told me ten years ago that I would be writing this I would have thought they were off their rocker. But here we are, where is technology taking the Human race? Who knows, but one thing we all should think about is. Why did God give us the brains, and will it make us any happier. I first started writing when I was 47 years old. I had dabbled with a wee bit of poetry for a few years, but nothing serious. I have always loved to make people laugh. It gives me a great buzz when people talk to me about something funny I have written and it had made them laugh, magic. I used to work as a bricklayer and one day I had a terrible accident when a scaffold I was working on collapsed and I was nearly killed. The accident happened inside a graveyard up at the Clachan of Campsie in the Campsie Glen. I cracked my skull and broke my ribs and had a punctured lung and also a bad knee injury. I think the blow on the head triggered something inside my brain. I don't force myself to write, it's either there or it is not there. But sometimes I feel as if I am getting guidance from above.
Not all of my work is comedy. There is some serious stuff as well. Life is not all peaches and cream. But in the main I try to make the reader laugh. And I would like to take this chance to thank all of the people who have helped me with my writing, and all the friends and the characters that I have met in my life. There are too many to name them all, I am bound to leave someone out. But the reader will meet some of them in my books. Over the last three years I have been a volunteer for the Meningitis Association Scotland and have raised them a few thousand pounds from the sale of my books, and I will continue to do so.
One of the proudest moments of my life was when my three "Luath" books were accepted in to the Robert Burns cottage at Alloway. And the first book "Luath,Clarinda and the Redwood Tree" is in the Van Morrison Archives. Not bad for an auld brickie fae Campsie. So I hope you all enjoy my writing and have a right good laugh. God Bless and au revoir the noo! PS Next January when the Gallant wee snowdrop appears to us, please look inside one of them. And when you see the beauty that I have seen, please make a wish. Make a wish for peace in this world of ours. Make a wish that we should be dropping food on the starving people of this world instead of dropping bombs. Make a wish for all our friends and family and every human creature no matter their creed or colour that we should all get together and be as one. Make a wish to attain inner happiness and peace and be happy inside.
	For a' that, an a' that, It's comin yet for a' that, That man to man, the world o'er Shall brithers be for a' that. Robert Burns
To people who do not have access to the net or do not like paying on line you can write to me to order my books at. Tam Craven 122 Main Street Lennoxtown Nr Glasgow G66 7DA tamcraven@yahoo.co.uk