if i thought you were listening, i'd never say a word

For reasons too complicated to explain, I found myself over the weekend needing a serious definition of the phrase “normal people”. The flip...

This is Helsinki Cathederal, taken, I think on a June evening in 2002. Back then I was working for Sonera, the Finnish telephone company r...

At the end of October I went back to the house where I was a child. I don't remember the very first place I lived in: I'm told it w...

My preferred conversational mode is the informal discussion, that just starts up around a subject and then stops because someone's phone...

The A316 is one of two major westerly arterial roads from London: it turns into the M3. It is surrounded by rabbit warren suburbs where cars...

Anyone with long-term sobriety asks themselves this from time to time. After all, we have lives that work – pretty much – and the last cravi...

You will recall that my grades in my section of The Bank had a re-organisation in summer. That was itself six months after we were told that...