Dec 31, 2024 | The Main Blog
At about 5:45am on New Year’s Eve, it occurred to me that 2024 has been the first year since I became of ‘working age’ in which I haven’t done any paid work. There are, of course, numerous reasons for this. My own health is fragile, but my wife and son’s support needs...
Dec 28, 2024 | The Main Blog
As I did last year, I want to share the list of books I have finished during 2024. Last year, I had read 55 books by New Year’s Eve. This year’s total of 47 is lower but is still pretty good, considering the amount of writing I had to do to complete my MA in Creative...
Dec 22, 2024 | The Main Blog
One of the great joys of reading is that, occasionally, you discover a book that has a profound effect on you, the reader. I’ve recently finished such a book, specifically Nine Minds by Daniel Tammet. The minds in question all belong to autistic people; some have...
Dec 17, 2024 | The Main Blog
For the last two years, I have been working towards an MA in Creative Writing with the Open University, as I discussed in this space in October 2024. That post was written shortly after I submitted my End of Module Assessment (EMA), a 15,000 word project which in my...
Dec 8, 2024 | The Main Blog
I am not what you would call a ‘people person’. I struggle in various social situations; I have lost count of the number of times I said ‘the wrong thing’, talked over others or interrupted because a contribution to the conversation popped into my head and needed to...
Nov 27, 2024 | The Main Blog
In December 2023, I wrote a blog entitled In a SpIn, which was an exploration of my oldest and deepest Special Interest (or SpIn for short). Yet over the summer, I decided that I had completely fallen out of love with football, ending an involvement with the sport...
