What you read in 2019

Here are my most popular blog posts of 2019. As you will have seen, I am taking a brief sabbatical … More

Weather vs climate (LentBlog38)

The main difference between weather and climate is the timescale that they each refer to. Weather describes the conditions of the … More

Towards the end of her Greenbelt Festival poetry reading Q and A with Sasha Dugdale in 2017, Rebecca Goss said … More

Having left FB a week or two ago and quickly decided before I could persuade myself to do otherwise to … More

‘You good?’ says the book. ‘Yup,’ I say. ‘Good, thanks. All good.’ ‘You’re good. So you’re good,’ the book says. … More

Dear Facebook I thought I would write to let you know that after years of thinking (and even talking) … More

Those kind and wonderful people at Change This have just released a new batch of free, downloadable manifestos. These articles … More

On Literary Envy “Comparison is the thief of joy” –Teddy Roosevelt You wake up one morning. You check in … More

Nothing much is happening. The book has gone out for the evening, leaving me alone, with, well, just me. I … More

A year ago I had a relapse of my cancer. Except I didn’t. For a week or so I knew … More

I treated myself to Seth Godin‘s newish book The Icarus Deception recently. It is both dense and light, profound and easy to … More