My supervisor, who I haven’t seen for a couple of months, asks me how I am. “I’m good,” I tell her. “Have you lost weight?” She says, wondering if the stress of eye surgery has had an impact. “Maybe, but it won’t be stress. Sometimes I forget to eat.” She raises an eyebrow and I […]
Why We Listen To The Critics
Having booked tickets for a film I have wanted to see for a while I search for reviews and try to work out why I don’t do it the other way around. The first piece I come across gives the film one star. Emerging from the cinema later I have found it funny, touching and […]
How To Get Out Of Almost Anything
I love these slow days between Christmas and New Year mostly because there is an absence of expectation. On a recent episode of “Sideways” my friend Martin and I discussed how Christmas is an exciting time for alcoholics because everyone else is drinking Prosecco at breakfast time and thereby normalising their own behaviour. I feel […]
How To Find Yourself
My daughter has just been away on holiday with her boyfriend on the beautiful Welsh coast. She arrived home with a bag full of enthusiasm and strangely flavoured rock. Last night she was home for dinner and it felt like an age since I’d seen her. “You must miss her. She was always in your […]
How Things Change Less Than You Think They Will
I’ve been away in the scorching hot sun of a European heatwave. The mercury rose to the mid ’30s and that’s where it stayed all week, with no air conditioning. The only place which could be described as refreshingly comfortable was the swimming pool until I climbed in on top of a wasp which stung […]
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