Initially, I had viewed lockdown as the perfect opportunity to write, write and write. But to be honest, that hasn’t gone entirely to plan!
For a couple of weeks before, all forecasts indicated that summer 2019 would end on the 28th September. That was a gloriously warm and sunny day. And true enough, Sunday 29th began wet, gloomy and chilly. Autumn was here.
Never mind professional cricket and its players exquisite skills and athleticism. We amateurs can do that too! If you were to look down on the United Kingdom from the International Space Station on any given summer’s evening you would see thousands of clusters of white clad beings dotted around green fields, statue still or moving […]
On Sunday, the England Men’s cricket team lifted the ICC World Cup Trophy for the first time. It was a truly wonderful, if nerve wracking, match to round off a fantastic tournament. It ebbed and flowed between England and New Zealand and it’s such a shame that only one team can triumph. That’s sport, but […]
Up until 2018 pretty much all I ever wrote was non-fiction. I must have written some stories at school but all I remember is at one stage being told off for only reading non fiction books. These were likely to have been about birds, horses, skiing, aircraft, cricket and science stuff. Nevertheless my teachers weren’t […]
Ongoing digitisation has placed data at the centre of our economic and social lives. Data is the known territory from which we explore the unknown. Centuries of accrued data tell us that the natural world is a myriad of complex relationships. Perhaps the most significant of which is that a healthy natural world is essential […]
The last time that I recall having written a short story I was at school. To be precise, I was in the Third Year – which I think is Year 9 in new money – and my English Master was Mr H. I don’t recall what the brief was, but I do recall the general […]
Energy, all energy, irrespective of its form, is the most important ingredient of life. It drives all biological processes in the natural world and it drives all activities of modern humankind, from the food we eat to the devices carried in our hands. And our appetite and need for energy is growing at an alarming […]
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