Travel Writing After All This
While sprucing up this blog a bit during lockdown, I fell into reading my old posts about South America. I enjoyed it, mostly for the …
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Holiday Tabs
Over the course of a week on holiday, I started reading many interesting articles. In lockdown there isn’t much to do but read …
Things to Remember
These are some things I jotted down one day last week, I’ll refine them a bit more later on. Think of it as an aide-memoire of things …
Ambitions Revisited
Back in 2012 I wrote a post listing my ambitions for the future. Well it’s the future now isn’t it? Almost. After all, I’m a …
Five years after
Five years ago I set out at 3am for Heathrow airport to catch the early morning flight to Madrid. There I connected with a flight to Quito …
Reboot
As much as I hate to write about writing, especially when I write so infrequently, I feel I need to reboot this blog. I wrote so few posts …
A Diary?
This year promises to be exciting so this week I tried to buy a diary. One of those day-to-a-page affairs for scribbling down all the things …
Valleys
In my last post, I wrote about hills. I tried to use them as a metaphor to explain nagging sense of incompletion when you single out one …
Hills
I’m a big fan of books. The way they transport you away to other places and so on. As repositories of knowledge and adventure they …
Create
It can be a struggle to keep writing. I’ve found this happened a lot since I moved the blog. First, there was the business of moving …
A New Notebook
Witness the pressure of a new notebook. You sit at your desk, trying to get it started with an amazing piece of writing. Something worthy of …
I Don't Have a Clue, part 43
A little man wearing a bow tie, and possibly a fez, scurries into the middle of the frame clutching a clapboard. Breathing heavily he hoists …