Let us start with a few pertinent facts. Factettes, if you will ( Read more... )

I used to be quite private about my writing ( Read more... )

City Centre living is not for the faint of heart, dear friends ( Read more... )

Clegg is not one of those names that would foster caution in a Middle East dictator, is it. They probably think he's Peter Sallis. And if you were expecting three old men in a bathtub bombing down the road towards you, would you be scared? Me either ( Read more... )

It is singularly good and right to have a purpose, in this Earth-bound life ( Read more... )

Wait a minute ( Read more... )

I'm tipsy from lunchtime Pimm's and feel like subverting some Sylvia Plath poetry.

I'm in a bad mood and it hurts like hell ( Read more... )

To me, there has always been something almost Holy about Comedy. Something to be revered in the art of bringing hilarity and amusement to the masses. To achieve utter absurdity would be like attaining a state of Nirvana. The sound of one man laughing. If a tree chuckles in the forest at a joke it heard 5000 years ago, and no-one is around to hear ( Read more... )

When people hear that I'm writing a novel, they want details. Quite often, they ask to read it ( Read more... )

You know it’s bad when I start quoting John Donne.

Not in reference to anyone in particular but the moment I see a comment about not caring about someone’s death, I immediately start quoting “No Man Is An Island”. Y’know the one.
“No man is an island entire of itself; every man ( Read more... )