25 Good Things
Great music, played with passion and flair. Really good cheese. A sunny place with flowers and trees and birds and …
Lifelong forgetting
You live and learn. That’s the idea, anyway. But this idea is undermined by a simple thing called human idiocy. …
Enthusiasms
As a child, I had enthusiasms. I’m sure you were the same. Short and early sidebar: ‘enthusiasms’ should always be …
What I Did in the Holidays
I was a lazy child. So lazy, in fact, that in other circumstances I might have had a scale of …
Bit of a to-do
Book M.O.T. Post office BINS! It makes me feel organised, purposeful, better about myself. I have a list of things …
Happy New Year
The year has passed; the year has begun. Long live the year! I try not to succumb to the New …
Christmas memories
Fats Waller had it right. My feet’s too big. It’s a wonder I wasn’t selected as ‘person in the class …
Ceci n’est pas un blog
I do apologise. There will be no blog this week. I’ve been away for the weekend, you see, celebrating a …
Practically perfect in every way
Perfection is subjective. This thought occurred to me at about 9.21 on Friday evening. We were at the National Theatre’s …
I Like Lists
I like chocolate. I really like chocolate. I like, and I think I’ve said this before, letting a square of …