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Time for a change

18 Dec 202018 Dec 2020

I can't stop myself from saying it: 2020's been quite the year. In March, when the UK came to a standstill, I started writing blog posts about the pandemic-induced lockdown.…

Porlock Hill

I’ve driven up Porlock Hill twice in my life: in the summer of 2008, and two days ago. The first time, I had moved to Somerset just weeks before, and…

All is not quite as it was

12 Jun 202012 Jun 2020

I wanted to write a piece about hope. Yesterday I drove to Bristol and back, the furthest I've been since mid-March. Bristol has of course been in the news, mostly…

Confessions from Redwood Class: combining editing and school

5 Jun 20205 Jun 2020

When it became apparent in March that it was a question not of if schools would close, but when, I resigned myself wearily to the new normal. I was worried…

With and against

It's annoying when news events render perfectly serviceable blog posts irrelevant. Last week I wrote about a road trip. It was probably fifteen miles long in total, never more than…

Road trip

22 May 202022 May 2020

I've always been drawn to the romance of the road trip. The forward motion. The escape. The discovery of new worlds, exterior and interior. The surreal stops along the way.…

Mermaid Arts

It is an unlikely place to find beauty, the derelict pub next door. The former Mermaid Inn. For the first five of the six years I've lived beside it, it…

Oceania had always been at war with Eastasia

Yesterday, we came home from our afternoon exercise to find the scent of fish and chips wafting from the shop round the corner. In the time before, you could smell…

Lockdown arse

This week's post is less an essay in miniature than it is a series of disparate paragraphs corralled uneasily together in Wordpress,* courtesy of the ongoing interference in my head.…

It’s OK/none of this is OK

23 Apr 202023 Apr 2020

Or, planning for an unknowable future If you're anything like me, right now your concentration is shot to pieces. It's OK to admit that. Psychologically, we're under great strain –…