It was while I was finishing 'Eric is Awake' that I decided to travel to the remote Hebridean Isle of Jura and stay in the house, nay the very room where Orwell wrote '1984'. It was a slightly oppressive narrow cell in a lovely house looking over a seal-draped bay that held a little of the sadness that came with knowing that although the house, Barnhill,  was a refuge for him, the remote location and the painful illness he was already suffering from, along with the Herculean task of typing out his final draft, (no typists could be convinced to travel there) helped him to an early death. 

While we were there, My friend Steve and I attempted a ludicrous experiment with a micro-camera and a kite. Always slightly clumsy and inept with practical tasks, George Orwell, real name Eric Arthur Blair, would have been amused by the results.