I asked Dani if she wanted a drink. She said she'd like a sloe gin with orange juice in. We weren't sure what such a drink might be ...

I don't want to get into the habit of using this blog to post old things, and I don't particularly want to use it to write about im...

In an earlier blog entry, I wrote about the pleasure of discovering something you don't remember writing. It gives us the illusion of se...

Ryan invited me to come and perform my stand-up routine (I have one, yes, and am currently working on another one) at 'an evening of ope...

Lots of people, even people who have known me for years, think that I am 'well read'. This is emphatically not true. I haven't r...

It's bad luck to keep your Xmas decorations up past Twelfth Night (6 January), but it's not bad luck to take them down before then. ...

Sometimes it's a disadvantage that the White Books are undated and miscellaneous. I don't even know where I keep them or how many th...