December 2007
At last the site has been up dated, and just in time for Christmas. As usual, at Christmas, I'll be adding a festive story on the 22nd of December. It will be published in The Times that day, and go on-line here, just for you. What's it about? A donkey, a frost, a little girl, and something unexpected.
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September 2007
This will be a quick column this month, ready for the publication update on September 27th, where you will find two long extracts from my new book The Stone Gods, and a podcast of me reading some of it, plus a chance to buy it at a discount, straight from the publishers. There will also be a new interview.
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August 2007
I was thinking about the piece in The PowerBook where everything turns into its watery equivalent. There has been so much rain here - impossible unimaginable rain - and still falling.
Come to think of it, the poem this month had better be Edith Sitwell: Still Falls The Rain.
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July 2007
Some days are like this - nothing really gets done and what does get done is pointless. Then, out comes a poem or a cat, or a flower, or a sunburst, or even a good piece of cheese, and the tilted world rights.
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June 2007
Here I am, back on site.
It is unusual for me - indeed unknown for me not to update the
site each month, but I needed to finish my new book, and there were difficulties elsewhere. The only hope was to perform the Indian rope trick and vanish.
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March 2007
Can somebody tell me why the BBC dramatisation of ORANGES ARE NOT THE ONLY FRUIT is being written out of broadcasting history?Can somebody tell me why the BBC dramatisation of ORANGES ARE NOT THE ONLY FRUIT is being written out of broadcasting history?
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February 2007
I was reading about the polar bears today, and how we will have destroyed their habitat within our life-time. Meanwhile the oil-men are pleased because they are going to be able to drill into permafrost and run their 4x4's for longer.
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January 2007
HAPPY NEW YEAR!
The only way to begin a new year is with optimism. No matter how bad it is, personally or globally, we need to believe that there will be a change, and that we can work towards change. I don't know why our minds are so powerful, but I know that they are, and that our attitude affects much more than can be proved.
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