It snowed today.  Big flakes of doily-edged snow, the kind that make you want to stick your tongue out and catch one.  Which we did, myself and Armand, on our way out to Poundland (it’s becoming a regular haunt) to buy cupcake cases and milk and envelopes.  Honestly, it’s a one-stop shop.
Yesterday I found myself [...]

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The faculty at UWIC (University of Wales Institute of Cardiff) invited me to give a talk to their English and Creative Writing Students. I had studied for six months there in 1993, a post-grad NCTJ course in journalism, and they liked to invite their old pupils back occasionally.
I have fond memories of my time at [...]

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We went to the Intelligence Squared debate on Burma, the other night, the motion being:  Is it time to lift sanctions?  I had an  old friend speaking in favour of the motion, Thant Myint-U, and a new friend speaking against the motion, Brad Adams.
Thant has a very distinguished Burmese pedigree - his late grandfather was [...]

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It’s a grey old rainy day today, and I’m meant to be writing about Malibu for my new novel.  But every so often I find my mind turning elsewhere, looking for colour and brightness.
Yesterday, while writing about Burma, I distracted myself googling about, looking for pretty pictures to brighten an otherwise grey day.  I found [...]

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So, with Burma night over a week ago now, Anna and I have been counting the money and talking to Prospect Burma about what they propose to do with  it.  We’re really excited because it looks as if it will go to sponsoring 12 exiled students for a year’s university in India.
We had some much [...]

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