AND SO IS THIS CHRISTMAS?

Much is said about the nightmare of Christmas, about how commercialism has destroyed it, about how children see nothing but the next present, about the cabin fever of being locked away with recalcitrant relatives. According to an ever-so-slightly desperate media Christmas is little more than a sponsored binge before the diet season, when retailers conspire to … Continue reading AND SO IS THIS CHRISTMAS? →

SUGS AND THE BIRTH OF A NOTION

Okay yes it is true, I have been away. I could pretend that it was only a matter of days, just casually pick up where I left off but that would seem disingenuous, a bit like the guilty emails I send to my mother that read as a seamless spontaneous outpouring but actually take three … Continue reading SUGS AND THE BIRTH OF A NOTION →