I get to speak a lot in public: it comes with the territory. It is never easy to speak, but over time I underestimate how practiced I have become. That is not meant to be boastful, it is just how …

I live in a village.

Although I believe that only a few people can ever truly ‘know’ you, in my village a lot of people know of you – and from several different angles: you may be (in no …

Too much religion on this blog. Time to turn to that other great source of spiritual truth: Q magazine. Fascinating interview this month with Richard Ashcroft (ex lead singer of the Verve). If I ever feel I suffer …

It’s half term and my brain is fried (I nearly wrote that my brian was fried. I don’t have a brian and if I did I would not fry him unless he tasted nice). Too fried for deep …

I love music- I am always searching for the next sound/ the next beat/will this next CD be ‘the’ one? Being anally retentive, I catalogue all of my CDs. However, my ‘incoming’/’uncategorised’ pile is now taking over a shelf in …