Actually, the world is enough

Appalled at the occasionally interesting, sometimes dark and often amusing information only revealed at family funerals, Lewis Hastings decided to put his varied and sometimes amusing thoughts onto paper whilst he was still able to string two words together and importantly, alive.

What followed became the stuff of legend;

"How's the book going Lewis?"
"Not bad thanks, almost there!" He would lie, knowing that the original six month timeline was already sitting nearer to seven years.

It would take a significant event in his life to bring him to his senses and so, where it had taken six and half years to write a rather limited eleven chapters, the balance, took six months.

The event that added the much-needed momentum was hearing his father tell him that he was dying. The book was always destined to be a guide for his children, so that they could learn about their father whilst he was still alive enough to embellish the stories.

Being able to travel a huge distance and read the final chapters from the first dog-eared proof copy to an amazingly-eager father was life changing, holding his hand and guiding him through the last few pages was both rewarding, tearful and poignant.

There was laughter too, lots of it, and that is the theme to the book.

Now finally in print it will hopefully become a legacy for his children. The original intention, whilst initially entirely honourable has almost been achieved.

What follows is what the author himself describes as a brilliant, rampant, roller-coaster ride through his first fifty years. Travel with him now from one end of the globe to the other, marvel at his stories, many of which are true, some happy, some sad, embrace the characters both good and bad and above all enjoy the journey.

"Without a doubt the best and most original hero to emerge from the New World since Christopher Columbus" Dumbly-on-the-Wolds Chronicle.