I’ve always thought a bucket-list sounds a bit clinical, more a matter of ticking things off rather than savouring them. […]
Propagating in a pandemic
There have been many beams of light through the gloom of this pandemic. Chief among them is the dazzling resourcefulness […]
The scribe of the soul
What’s your earliest memory? It’s generally agreed by psychologists that our memories can go back to when we were two […]
The Tao of Lockdown part 2
You may have read my recent post called The Tao of Lockdown. It was sparked by the situation we suddenly […]
Zesty Zurich
If life hadn’t thrown the curveball of a pandemic, I should have been arriving in Switzerland around now to spend […]
The secret service of style
Where does our personal taste come from? I reflect on this occasionally, especially when I see new buildings going up […]
Defying the darkness
The Danish idea of hygge – cosiness – might well be a noughties fad that’s come and gone but surely […]
The shock of the new
The past weeks have been shocking. The sight of churches in Italy filled with coffins, the scenes of manically busy […]
The Tao of lock-down living
It says ‘writer, traveller, broadcaster’ in my by-line (and after the past few weeks I’m thinking of adding ‘expert hand-washer’). […]
Penguins and politics
In the late 1980s I decorated two display homes in a housing development near Marbella on the Costa del Sol. […]
