Winter sun is the way forward
We’ve never done the whole winter sun thing before. This year’s original plan was to go to Morocco with James in February half-term to stock up on some pre-A-Level vitamin D. However, when the idea was mooted it was met with horror; “I’m locked in. I am NOT going anywhere when I’ve got A-Levels to…
The twin challenges of AI and Ageing
I can’t get away from AI no matter how I try. This doesn’t make me a luddite, a fossil, or closed-minded, it makes me someone that likes to do things for myself. I drive a manual car, I write with a fountain pen, I read books – paper ones. Am I in the minority here?…
Patriot, Alexei Navalny
I’ve just finished reading Patriot by Alexei Navalny. What a writer. He had a charisma and courage that was tested in ways so terrible I can’t even try to imagine. As he shares the story of an incredible life, through the good times and the inhuman, he never loses his humour, warmth, passion and resiliance,…
Not from Newbury 