Zackary is eleven and has come to the belated realisation that at some point in the distant future he is going to die. Obviously he has known about death for a while, he has lost a dog and a grandparent but for some reason he had never made the connection with himself before. When it … Continue reading I LOVE YOU, TERMS AND CONDITIONS MAY APPLY
‘I’ve been reading your thingama blog.’ Says my father. ‘Very interesting.’ I look up from fixing his iPad, having already closed at least a hundred web pages and deleted countless inadvertent selfies of his feet. I peer at him, over hated but strategically remembered glasses. Interesting word interesting. There is the interesting exhibit at the … Continue reading INTERESTING AND THOUGHTFUL
Hello is that the furniture and lighting shop? Ah, good, it’s Keith here, I was in earlier, you know, the annoying guy you spent an hour with, again, helping me with the light? Ha. Well thank you it’s really appreciated, you certainly have a lot of knowledge and experience and a great selection of lights … Continue reading I LIKE TO SUPPORT LOCAL BUSINESS ME
Warning! Profligate use of exclamation marks ahead! Good grief! I have just about had enough of the internet, following me about like some creepy stalker-hawker! So yes, I confess, I am a man of a certain age but I don’t in any way identify with the irresistible slip towards terminal decline. So why does the … Continue reading EXIT, PURSUED BY A BEAR
I only have one son left to walk to school, his older brothers having graduated to bicycles and secondary, and my morning stroll with Joa has become a worn path I will be sad to no longer tread. There is however one part of the school circuit I won’t miss, the social collisions with other … Continue reading COMPELLED TO COMMIT NICETIES
If Cornwall didn’t exist then someone would have to invent it. God maybe. It is a place of ineffable beauty, a land of savage seascape, cleaving rivers, cumulus forest, rolling hills, buried churches and horizontal weather. It has some of the most glorious empty beaches you will ever see, assuming a local tells you how … Continue reading WHERE THE SUN SHINES AND THE RAIN FALLS
I don’t know if I have mentioned it (I have) but we live in a flat, well actually to be accurate an apartment, as it is on two floors and not flat, like a flat. We have always got on with our neighbours in a typically English kind of way, polite nods when passing on … Continue reading THE DISARMING URGENCY OF FIRE ALARM DIPLOMACY
I have spent years believing in the absolute uniqueness of the individual. That all of our experiences are singular, subjective and altered via perspective. When a ball hits the ground is it falling, stationary or rising? The truth is often open to interpretation. It is why I didn’t have a wedding video because I didn’t … Continue reading THE TRUTH IS WHAT I SAY IT IS
So okay, in my other capacity as occasional furniture designer in a world where very little that is original is allowed enough oxygen to catch fire, I give you the Session. It’s a chair and by extension a sofa. I can’t pretend that chairs are original, they are everywhere, and the more successful ones tend … Continue reading A HEAVY SESSION
Buy a poppy, don’t think about it just buy one. Ignore the politicians, it’s not political, ignore the celebrities, it’s not celebratory, don’t buy one just to be seen wearing it, it’s not an accessory. Buy a poppy because our servicemen and women, ex and on duty, need our help and a small demonstration of … Continue reading A BRUISED PEACH HIS HEART THE STONE
THE ACCIDENTAL HUMAN 