Suddenly… 3 weeks to go

Why is the idea of a journey important right now?  How can we use the ideas about a journey to help us understand things that are changing or confusing or just too complicated in our everyday lives?   That’s what I’m trying to do here.  Although I enjoy travelling and telling stories about what happened,…

On my walk today I crossed two bridges both of which seemed like reasonable shelter for a #llobo tonight.  Trouble is I can’t decide which one – the big wooden one has my vote at the moment, there’s a lot more space and branches with plenty of foliage to help create my bed.  The concrete…

One of my most consistent creative blocks is thinking about how what I’m making is going to be received.  I can go round and round in circles in my head for ages worrying about this or that. (Btw it’s one of the reasons I try to write longhand and then type-up rather than type straight…

So let’s get one thing straight, kids. Thirty years ago today, on 8th December 1980, it was not cool to like John Lennon, it was not cool to like The Beatles. In what we had in place of iTunes back then, the record department in Preedy’s in the High Street, where I went every week…

I’ve noticed these since I’ve been back through Birmingham a few times, the old cast iron street signs like this: are being replaced (or at least augmented) with plastic copies like this: I’m sure this will have been noticed elsewhere (oh yes).  I don’t like. I’d rather have the old one’s left as they are,…