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,…