Blog & Podcast

Apologies to James Joyce for the heading here but it does work well for this blog!  I asked for feedback following the recent relaunching of my website.  It has generally been very constructive as well as, fortunately, positive!  Thanks very much to those who took up their precious time to do it.  One point which came up more than once

The lock of love

All about Ant

What is your pot of tea?

A trip to the chemist brings back lots of trips to the barber

A story about a cake my Mum made for me to take in my rucksack when I went to Iran in 1977 aged 20.

This poem was first aired in 2006 on my erstwhile ‘Thought for day’ slot on Radio Suffolk. The cover art is a painting in 2024: the view looking up from swing bench in my back garden. Sunlight through Leaves.

My walk to the Old Man of Hoy and how it made me think about My Old Man

This podcast is about my exploration of Neolithic Orkney. The cover art is my drawing of a home in the village of Skara Brae, complete with beds, hearth and dresser.

Have you got pareidolia too?

This episode of my podcast touches on whether we can really have social science. Was Emile Durkheim or Margaret Thatcher right?