Other Writing

Finally gave in and joined Flickr. Here's my first photo ... a 'nuclear' sunset over Canary Wharf taken at the local DLR station, Pontoon...

Michelle: I wear red because my husband is full of fire. Laura: I'll get my coat...

In a somewhat lager-fuelled discussion about writing, after last week's session of The School of Life, some of my classmates challenged me to produce a 'No 1 Ladies Detective Agency' story, in which Mma...

There's something in the air that you can sense Elusive yet unbearably intense The stars are standing there in bright suspense As they prepare to light immense events So starts "On Such A Night as This" by...

I'm having a Ken Barlow moment. In the longest running soap opera, he has dusted down from the attic his youthful novel, compared it briefly to the writers he currently admires, and torched it. I have nothing...

On a whim, I've been for a weekend on the Suffolk coast at a property owned by Ruth Watson, the somewhat painted-and-decorated star of Channel 5's "The Hotel Inspector". For the uninitiated, this is a...

I've been to Dubai on business and ate one night at "Verre", the Gordon Ramsay branded a la carte joint in the Hilton and I have to say it was one of the most irritating and boring evenings I've ever had in a...

Coming soon ... story of my trip to Syria It's certainly not the Axis of Evil as defined by the Bush/Blair propaganda machine. Mind you, it's not the Axis of Clean Toilets either...

COMING SOON: My experience with Dame Maggie Smith at Lady from...

I am a man of little ambition. I wrote that to see if it looked any more true on the screen than it did in my head. Any plateau of achievement to which I ever ascended was done not with the crampons and...