Who can put a price on Christmas?
A picture in place of 1000 words this week. Who can put a price on Christmas? At least one second-hand shop in Gothenburg can.
Hypochondria
In which we meditate on hypochondria, my father’s cancer and my family’s gene pool – and take a quick look at Three Men in a Boat.
En français – How helpful is phrasebook French
We investigate some of the language problems an English traveller may run into when trying to speak le français with the dubious aid of a phrase book.
Big changes
This website has been quiet for some time, but earlier in the year I decided I would reconfigure my various sites and keep this as a mostly static home base.
Brand New Computational Device
In which we take the plunge and buy a new computational device (laptop) and explore different software that might be useful for an author to put into it.
What We Have Learned
In which we learn what we have learned from the experience – and failure – of our first crowd funding campaign. And discover there may be a Plan B.
Half full or half empty?
A meditation on the question: Are you a half full or a half empty kinda guy? Why it’s not so easy to answer. Includes a digression on Bulgarian measures.
The state of the art, or What I did on my hols
The state of the art of storytelling in Britain today- snapshots from my recent visit catching-up with my family in Northamptonshire.
Gone live! My crowdfunding campaign.
The crowd funding campaign to publish My Gothenburg Days went live this morning and I have difficulty concentrating on anything else.
The stories we tell
A reflection on the art of telling stories, and the compulsion to tell them, and how some stories are more divorced from reality than others.