Spring back through the years
A photo essay looking back at Spring (mostly the month of May) through the rear-view mirror of my photo archive, 2011-2021.
In Flight from the Cider House Rules
In Flight is a personal review of The Cider House Rules by John Irving and Flights by Olga Tokarczuk (translated by Jennifer Croft).
Beach Green bungalow – some of my earliest memories
The bungalow at Beach Green in Shoreham-by-Sea was the third place I lived, but the first place I have clear memories of.
Introducing Pens around the World
Introducing Pens Around the World, a website and a writers’ group for isolated writers working in English and living in far-flung places.
Visiting imaginary places in the realms of fantasy
Imaginary places are pretty much the only places one can visit at present and The Dictionary of Imaginary Places is a great place to start.
Taking to heart Douglas Adams’ “note to self”
Douglas Adams, wrote The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, yet had terrible difficulties in writing. He wrote himself this note of encouragement.
A Mediterranean Quintet: Call Me to A Village
A Mediterranean quintet of books, and a few more. A reading diary round-up of the books I completed in the first 8 weeks or so of 2021.
On the north side: photos from a morning walk
I took my new smartphone for a photo walk on the north side of the river: wharves and waste ground, building works and sculptures.
How Do You Read Poetry? A Village Life
Reading A Village Life by Louise Glück, I’m consciously trying to read it in a different way from the way I usually read poetry books.
Behemoth passing – of death and computers
My desktop PC, Behemoth, died on Monday evening at about 5pm. The boot drive had become corrupted. Windows 10 wouldn’t load. The auto repair process was caught in a repeating loop. I was faced with the Black Screen of Death. The panic monsters I’ve been using computers for work and play (and to kill time) … More…