family

I know, I know … this is a terrible shot. But that’s not important. I took this from the balcony...

1 June 2014

A photo for May 2014

I didn’t take this photo. It was taken decades before I was born, and shows my mother as a young...

1 May 2014

It’s that time of year when people get struck down with colds and flu viruses. Well, here in the northern...

12 November 2012

I don’t want to live in a society where discrimination is hard-wired into the institutions that surround us. I don’t....

19 March 2012

The view from my childhood bedroom window is still there. A tower block, an open green space, gasometers in the...

15 March 2012

I lost something recently. It doesn’t matter what. It doesn’t matter when. Not for the purposes of this post anyway....

24 November 2009