I’m going away for a while, planning to spend a week or so in the bottom left hand corner of Wales – the Pembroke coast. I need the break! As a result of my absence I’ve had to cancel participation…

Yesterday morning I met an assorted group of writers from North-West England in Denton Library, on the outskirts of Greater Manchester, where we shared a set of poems and stories on the general theme of May, Whitsun, Maypoles and Spring….

Early this morning I received an e-mail from Fantastic Books Publishing to say that a little story of mine was to be published in their forthcoming “Fantabble” anthology. This is the outcome of a competition they launched more than a…

I wrote about the stop-start but ultimately irresistible advance of spring in my previous blog, which I embellished with a few photographs taken in various parts of the Peak District during the recent mini-heat-wave. This morning (another fine sunny day),…

For much of April, spring was progressing as usual, and then came a spell of cold weather with snow and frosts. The swallows, recently returned from migration, ceased to fly over the lakes and fields. Some of our regular spring…

There seems to be an interesting analogy between certain political developments in the UK and the USA. After the last UK general election in May 2014 the leader of the Labour Party, Ed Miliband, resigned because the party had fared…

I’m not the first person to suggest that the greatest legacy we received from Classical Athens was the use of μεν and δε: on the one hand, on the other hand – the principle of balanced argument. Balanced argument doesn’t…