Name your weapons
Sadly, we’ve recently been learning the names of weapons. There’s one name that’s the most successful name for a weapon in human history.
A Sandstorm Summer Holiday – a memory from 1968
A Sandstorm Summer Holiday – not the best advert for Lytham St Annes, I’m afraid. This is an attempt to write autobiographical flash fiction.
Thomas Coram and the Foundling Museum
It was only by chance that Mrs SC and I found the Foundling Museum, but what a fascinating story about charity and children and the arts!
Spring from Winter – more photos from the archives
A photo essay about the shift from winter to spring in Gothenburg, collecting photos taken for my 2012-2014 daily photo bog GBG365.
Personality questionnaires and character development
The origins and perennial attraction of personality tests and their potential as hooks to motivate writing and for characer development.
Wild Girls on the Salt Path
A reading diary update – a wild selection of brief salty reviews of 5 of the 14 titles I’ve completed reading this first quarter of 2022.
London in the rain: tourists on a bus
Mrs SC and I visited London and did touristy things, including travelling by bus and photographing the city in the rain.
Pinman lives a dangerous life
The pinman in the hazard triangle lives a dangerous life. Here’s a sonnet to celebrate his superhuman contribution to human safety.
Return to Tema: the search for house and school
Part 2 of The Return to Tema, in which, in 2018, I search for the house I remember living in and the school I attended back in 1963 and 1964.
Return to Tema: the motorway then and now
On the Accra-Tema Motorway: first part of a report on my return to Tema, Ghana, 50 years on from when I was there as a child in 1963-64.