I’ve just renewed my flickr pro account, and so all my old photographs are once again available. It’s cool – there are dozens from China, India and Taiwan.
Lovely students from Sichuan:
Lightning strikes Hong Kong:
Acting on Chinese TV:
Purim party:
And breakfast:
I’m staying in Nice, the south of France, with my parents. It’s a really tough time.
My problems include:
Breakfast of croissants filled with nutella
Afternoon espresso in open air cafes
A sea breeze
Shapely French women heading this way and that
Savoury snacks in shop windows
Little bottles of beer in the fridge
Reading Tolstoy on the balcony, his hands around my [...]
I bought a few how-to-write guides, as part of the process of planning my book’s second draft. Doing this made me half-embarrassed, as usual. Firstly, it’s like breaking cover, allowing the person behind the counter to see my unguarded aspirations / pretensions. Secondly, the genre is set up on the understanding that you have a [...]
I finished the first draft of my novel today. It arrived ahead of schedule: for the last few days, as the final page has been getting closer, something in me as been demanding more words. I’ve felt a bit battered, actually. Morning sessions have often been followed by an unexpected afternoon session. I finished today [...]
Promised, and delivered after long delay: the story of the mouse and the toaster.
Well, we had a mouse in the house. I blame the arrival of a cat next door, perhaps a good example of a negative externality: the road’s mice migrating as each house gained a cat. Our mouse was a tricky, wry [...]
