I was watching I’m a celebrity get me out of here last night. I know I know, I’m meant to be a writer; I’m meant to be filling my brain with high fal-ut-ing literature of the highest calibre and shunning the flickering box, but I’d had a journey from hell coming back from London on […]

I’m back Just survived a stinking cold that has made me feel like a human kleenex, it got so bad that over the weekend I thought I might have Man Flu; we all know how bad that is. Come to think of it, it could be the next pandemic health threat, if Man Flu mutated […]

I’ve just finished reading Stephen King’s book about writing, appropriate for Halloween me thinks. I loved his books as a teenager, and I love this one just as much. Five reasons why?1. I loved the fact that he gives a mixture of practical advice and glimpses into his own life. We get a peek into […]

I’ve tried it and it works. All you do is type the name of the book you want, into the library request section of the intranet and if our library doesn’t have it, they will arrange a loan from the British Library.So added to the bliss of being here, in Cornwall, and doing this, learning […]

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 […]