My friend Ruth Benton asked me to offer up 10 albums that had helped to form my taste in music. It’s one of those pass-it-on Facebook challenges, but this one …
More +Someone tell me what to do
The world already had ‘strong leader syndrome’. And now this… Behind all the shock at the sudden curtailment of freedoms (in countries where they existed), how many of us are …
More +Are you social distancing?
This is an emergency. Where is the urgency, Sweden? Well, the same accusation was being flung at the UK until this week, but let’s look a little more closely at …
More +You’re lucky to be alive
If you’re conscious, you’re lucky. Seriously. Almost all the people who have ever lived aren’t alive right now. But you are (‘cos you’re reading this). Lucky you. I was getting …
More +Pardon my Swedish!
Whenever I heard my grandmother – who was from the North of England – say something was ‘dear’ (i.e. expensive), I assumed nothing could be more English than this classic …
More +What’s your storm name?
Mine’s Storm Caleb. That’s if the rule is Storm followed by the name of your first pet. Otherwise it’s Storm Eileen. That’s if the rule is Storm followed by the …
More +If life gives you cucumbers…
…write a blog about cucumbers. Sometimes life descends into pure farce. On a wet January evening in a shopping mall on the outskirts of Malmö. Or anywhere. It goes from …
More +Same place, different century
Stuck for a good read? Try two books about the same place from writers who were there a century apart. I’ve done it twice now, by chance. I recommend it. …
More +Meet beauties online now
I know a couple who are from wildly different places in different hemispheres. How did they meet? On the internet, of course. If you’re old enough, the idea of meeting …
More +I saw a hare… where?
“Here hare here” So says the note found by Uncle Monty on the door of his Cumbrian cottage in the classic 1980s film Withnail & I. But the hare – …
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