If you’re new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Thanks for visiting!It’s Saturday evening and there’s still two days of weekend to go. Long Easter weekends are great. I’ve moved back home after the week’s cat sitting, getting reaquainted with my own tea bags, my own furniture and an unfamiliar […]

Tony Blair apparently wants to use his post-war popularity to poll the nation on joining the euro, believing that a khaki referendum has more chance of succeeding.
That’s rather naive, isn’t it?
There’s such rabid and unfortunate Euro- (and euro-) phobia in the popular press at the moment that it has practically no chance of success. Indeed, […]

Summer really does seem to have arrived already. Or at least a preview of the real thing. If the forecasts are anything to go by, it’ll be dropping back down to 10C by Sunday. For the moment, though, London is making the most of it, and I spent lunchtime sat in Soho Square reading a […]

Flyposters for the new Goldfrapp album that coat the streets of Soho just now sucked me into the wide open doors of Virgin before work this morning. Walked around and around but couldn’t find it anywhere and ended up coming out with some Morten Harket, ruthlessly slashed in price in the sale, and Dannii Minogue, […]

Enjoy.

So I have 11 days to go if I’m going to make it to my self-imposed quota of 50,000 words within 4 weeks. I’m feeling fairly confident as I have only 5,000 words to go. 50,000 words works out to about 175 pages when translated into paperback book format but with the plot only half […]

What is it with this waking up early? How am I supposed to service my dashing lifestyle of late nights when I keep on waking before the alarm goes off. This morning, awake after just six hours. Wide awake. No chance of any more sleep. The only thing to do is to sit in bed […]

Why did I wake up so early this morning? Not that I’m complaining - it was good to be out of bed and working on the book before nine. It was just unusual for a Saturday, that’s all.
It was hard going. My last writing session left me in the middle of a tricky scene that […]

There has been loads written about the stupid things George W Bush says, but is Rumsfeld any better? Slate has taken some of his speeches and pulled out direct quotes. No editing. No changing. Just direct quotes. Is this man less a military strategist and more a poet?
The Unknown
As we know,
There are known knowns.
There are […]

I’ve not been in work as early as I was today for weeks. Months, in fact. Perhaps a year now I think about it. 8.20. Not that early by London standards, but the crack of dawn for a writer. Especially one who works in magazines.
The tube was crowded, of course, but it wasn’t such a […]