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.
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, a website and a writers’ group for isolated writers working in English and living in far-flung places.
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.
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 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.
I took my new smartphone for a photo walk on the north side of the river: wharves and waste ground, building works and sculptures.
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, my desktop PC, died on Monday. I could probably revive it, but it’s ten years old – old for a computer. It’s time to buy a new one.
In Night of the Kings, a film from Ivory Coast, Roman, a new inmate in the MACA prison must entertain his fellow prisoners by telling a story.
Fat Tuesday – Mardi Gras, Fettisdag, Shrove Tuesday – lactose intolerance and the corona pandemic combine to get me baking Swedish Fettisbuns