this is me trying
There is a story about Oscar Wilde that I was told in my first week as an undergraduate that I
the five podcasts I actually listen to
If you had told me back in 2007, when approximately 30 per cent of all my waking hours were spent
the process of reading as unconscious as breathing
I have really struggled with reading in the last six months. This week, I finally tidied up the windowsill next
working from home is great until it isn’t
When I first moved out of London — and don’t worry, this isn’t one of those “why I left
a list of small, inconsequential pleasures
For no particular reason, yesterday I was thinking about the really quite terrible 2007 film Evan Almighty. You don’t
when will we cry in public again?
I haven’t been on a train since early March, so naturally I’ve been daydreaming about public transport a
I feel a warm little glow of satisfaction
I read that piece in the Observer last weekend about how fear of a miserable, long, dark winter is mostly
because of all the words I deleted
This is how many words I wrote last week:
During the working week 24 — 28 August, I wrote 13,671
how do you have a minor illness during a pandemic?
I didn’t write to you last Friday as I had planned. I was busy reenacting this scene:
I had
rummaging through all the paper
I feel like I have been taking notes on what I read since I was about 14, and that for