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A chance encounter with Sudanese Post
This may be the first ever column about the Sudanese postal service of the early 1980s, but I doubt it’s the first ever column about the way a chance encounter can steer a life.
Sleeping dogs
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Fear and loathing at the Bennett bird table
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Fear and loathing at the Bennett bird table
Fear and desire are the twin poles of the universe, the yin and yang of action, the push-me-pull-you forces of existence.
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To the pub, to the pub, to the pub pub pub
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To the pub, to the pub, to the pub pub pub
Repeat after me: the pub is a good thing.
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Shining the sun on origin of quotation
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Shining the sun on origin of quotation
My mother has no tombstone.
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Critical smarts from hitchhiker’s guide to dogs
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Critical smarts from hitchhiker’s guide to dogs
A sign on the gate said Beware of the Dog.
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Where the price of freedom is captivity
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Where the price of freedom is captivity
And they’re off.
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This may be an exorcism, or maybe not
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This may be an exorcism, or maybe not
She haunts me. I saw her just the once, six weeks ago, but every week since then, when I have cast round for what to write about, she’s come to mind.