Friday, 19 December 2025

Legacy II

A Sviet Russian Stout label with a hammer and sycle. I did this by hand you know with coloured paper and shit No computer.
Following on from my earlier post about the legacy of Martyn Cornell. What would happen to the stuff I'm working on if I dropped dead tomorrow?

I'm assuming here that my son Andrew will handle this. You never know, though. The git could betray me.

What I do trust, is his writing ability. He's pretty good. Annoyingly, in two languages. Why did I make all that effort to bring up the kids bilingual? I remember. Because I'm not an egocentric twat.

I am, what you say, prolific, when it comes to writing. I've published loads. Still, there's lots lying around. Several complete manuscripts. "America!", for example. I can't remember why I've never released that. Private ones, like "Xmas!". 

I've a couple of books or travel reports on the go. They can just be ended where they are. I particularly like "Shut up, Dad". (My attempt to be the new Hunter Davies.) Andrew can just whiz them through to Lulu.

Then there's "Free!". A really important book for me. Covering 1880-1914. (Where I'd like to spend the rest of my retirement.) I'm 75% of the way through. I'd hate it to be unseen.

Andrew might not totally pay attention to what I say while I'm still breathing. He should be able to find these back.

The recipe section can be published pretty much as is. It would have been a separate volume anyway. Really, everything other than the beer styles section can be published. That still needs a lot of work.

OK, Andrew? 

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

Not suggesting you don’t back up the blog but Martyn’s site is all backed up at the Wayback Machine: https://web.archive.org/web/20250709164023/https://zythophile.co.ukI had a panic when I was asked to move off my server used from 2003 to 2016. But, after moving over 1000 posts and updating links, I realized what a gem the Wayback Machine is. Bit of rot for the stuff inner 20 years old but I transfer posts from it over to the current blog when there is a need.