Joining the local creative writing class 15 months ago restored my confidence (as I’ve said previously on this site) and enabled me to write – among other things – another novel. (I still await the literary consultant’s assessment of MS…

The first week of February (Saturday 1st to Saturday 8th) is National Storytelling Week in the UK so there’ll be more storytelling activity during that week – and before it. And after it, I expect.   This coming Thursday morning…

Received wisdom holds that chimpanzees are more closely related to humans than gorillas; the only species perhaps more closely related is the bonobo, but there aren’t many of those. I believe the received wisdom merits amendment.   Chimpanzees might be…