Personal Experiment: Going Soap Free (it’s the new “clean”)

I’m trying this as an experiment. I am on day 5 of using no soap or shampoo, just water, to wash and shave with. This may come as a surprise to anyone who knows how fond I am of natural plant based and home-made soaps. Why give up soap? From the top of my head, [...]

A Doodle A Day Part I

Recently I have been trying a new way of keeping a journal using the lovely little “storyboard” notebook by Moleskine. The idea is simply to fill a frame a day with some little sketch. This really works well for me because I am not a great drawer but I do enjoy doodling and the challenge [...]

Current Creative Projects

The next couple of months is looking exciting, here’s what I am up to: Stories from the Borders of Sleep This is my personal pet project that is delightfully growing a life of its own. For a number of years I have been keeping a dream diary and also a record of some of the [...]

Google Contextual Ads Bring a Tinge of Irony to Apocalyptic Predictions

So I only just found out about the end of the world, too. So I checked in to judgementday2011.com – it was hard to focus on the facts with all those adverts offering me one last bite at life on earth: Errr …. Thank you, how very welcoming! Salvation or sushi? The choice is yours! [...]

More Entertaining Spam Humour

I do read my spam on this blog – it’s good for a laugh! bet365 says: how are you I was fortunate to come cross your Topics in google your Topics is marvelous I obtain much in your website really thanks very much btw the theme of you site is really wonderful where can find [...]

My Spiritual Fathers

I am terrifically grateful that my growing years were under the eye of as loving and fair a father as anyone could hope for. The qualities I most remember in my own father were his sense of fair play and equitability, his steady grasp on old fashioned concepts like “honour” and “loyalty” and even “duty”, [...]

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