Toby has started writing instead of talking so much...

Toby Philpott wanted to write when at school, but his favourite authors all seemed to have lived colourful lives (when he read their biographies on the sleevenotes). So he went out to have one of his own.

Archaeologist, fairground worker, bar staff in a folk & blues club, jewellery maker, street conjuror, comedy juggler, acrobat, fire-eater, unicyclist - teacher of circus and variety skills, film puppeteer (most notoriously inside Jabba the Hutt), NoFit State circus performer - he has fulfilled most of those vague ambitions to appear on stage, screen, radio and television, but most recently has re-invented himself as a library worker focused on the use of computers (and he reads a lot of books, too!) The seeds of the autobiography appear online, for now.

Always ambitious to try everything, in 2007 he decided to try to write a book in a month with NaNoWriMo* - which turned into a semi-fictionalised version of some of his adventures in Spain during the 1980s, which he called 'Foolproof' - released 'as is' rather than polished up.
His late friend Mick Swain turned up as a character to help him finish writing it, and to claim his happy ending.

Toby has now started on another NaNoWriMo novel, entitled Infinite Monkeys

You can also find here a version of the book that Mick left unfinished "Another Kinda Time" (edited by Toby from the abandoned papers) as it covers several similar themes - jugglers, troubadours, time shifts, writing about writing, hidden messages, anarchy, visits to parallel worlds, etc. They spent a lot of time talking about writing together.
Toby appears (in disguise) in Mick's book, too.

And finally, getting into his role as literary executor - he has published some essays his mother wrote, summing up her teaching techniques. Just one last souvenir.

* National Novel Writing Month