
Reflections on Haiti
A few months ago, after an entire day of time wasting, I was about to delete my Facebook account. Twitter had been binned already, and as I searched for the ‘delete account’ tab, the status of a female friend caught my attention: “Thinking of Haiti tonight and grateful for simple pleasures in beautiful Vancouver.” Haiti? [...]

Juggling Hand Grenades
I recently spent a week in Pembrokshire, West Wales, in a cottage that was accessed by a two-mile dirt track and had no electricity or phone service. The inhabitants consisted of myself, an assistant who was breaking a rather long and heavy dependency upon Marijuana use, and a very good friend who had been distant [...]
General
Are you worried?
A couple of middle-aged ladies knocked on my door this week, and as I opened it they asked me, “Sir, are you worried about the trajectory that the world is taking?” And without waiting for a response from me, “Have you noticed how all of the things that man has created are beginning to crumble [...]
Saying it like it is
I rarely look up to people (I’m not being literal here, though I’m 6ft 5) in the way that i do with Jamie Oliver. It seems to me that below the laddish, cockney veneer lays a man who cares passionately enough about his subject to put his neck on the line and to say it [...]
There’s snow excuse!
If you live here in the UK, you will know just how bad the weather has been for the last week. Snow, blizzards, icy roads, we’ve had it all, and as I write this, the weather-man is saying that the worse is yet to come. It’s just as well we don’t shoot the messengers any [...]
Thankfully it’s all over!
Thankfully it’s all over! Christmas and New Year that is. It’s not that I don’t enjoy it. Like my friend Sophie says, “ what is there not to enjoy? You get to eat what you want, watch movies, drink unacceptable amounts of alcohol and share presents. All from the sofa!”


