1. The road planners are very fond of the double roundabout, a totally confusing piece of two circled road trickery. There is this one near campus that they’ve put on a fairly steep hill so that you really can’t see what you are supposed to be giving way to. 2. There are a lot of […]

On Friday morning at Truro Station, at the grand old age of 31, I bought a young person’s rail card. As a mature student, I am eligible, but it did seem to make the railway ticket person’s day.‘Mature student,’ he quipped, ‘isn’t that a bit of a contradiction?’I stood with my rucksack and my hangover […]

So why is it non-fiction rather than fact? I wouldn’t call myself a non-man? I suppose calling your book a fact book might not be accurate. Your view on the healing power of apple peal and comfrey in an alternative health book, might not be viewed by everybody as fact.Or a GCSC science book discussing […]

The whole Normal thing (see previous blog) reminds me of two sisters at my primary school, lets call them Jewel and Beauty. Jewel was in the year above us and she was, as far as I can remember, a nice enough girl. Beauty was in my year, in my class actually. She was about a […]

I’m reading this great book called, “Rules of Thumb”. It contains 73 short pieces from successful writers on habits they’ve developed that help them write. At the end of each piece there is some blurb about the author. When I read that one grew up in a town called Normal, Illinois, I closed the book […]