Make hay while the sun shines
Life is full of little discoveries, and my latest was the Norfolk coast. If you haven’t been before (I hadn’t) then it is terribly beautiful, rather wild, and, considering the…
‘Latitude’s that way’
‘Just. Walkers.’ The policeman spoke slowly and deliberately as if to emphasise the hilarious transparency of my deceit. His mouth smiled and the rest of him did not. After we’d…
Venezia
On Friday, in a highly uncommon display of romance, I took my girlfriend to Venice for the weekend. I attempted to conceal our true destination by claiming that we were…
Call Will Smith
My girlfriend, E, lives in Buckhurst Hill, a couple of stops from the north-eastern end of the Central Line. It is comfortable and leafy suburbia, with an unmistakeable dash of…
Keep it up all day
It’s not every day you save yourself a significant amount of money with a dab of hair product. During the last spell of sodden weather, the front door of my…
Hopheads
Some time ago my uncle bought me a hop vine for my birthday. It arrived through the post in a small wooden box, and in the years since I planted…
The Calanques
At Suginot the water swarms around the rock fall, Turquoise and empty. The round power of tides grasps like a pulse. The bending pine branches are green hands Cupping water,…
