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Home again home again The familiarity and comfort of home is important to me. I do like going outside (from time to time), but I love being inside, especially when it’s diabolical outside. When I say I like rainy weather, it’s not because I literally want to be

Turning a number First up, apologies to those sports fans who may feel miffed that the subject line promised a post about sports. While I am a person who likes and plays sports, this is not that kind of newsletter/blog. (But if you’d like to see me pull

Minimalism: So hard in reality I like to think of myself as a minimalist, but the reality is that I still have too much stuff: too many clothes, too many books, too many retro games for consoles which no longer quite work. I’ve always sourced as many clothes as

Eric Carle, celebrated author and illustrator of astonishingly well known books for children, passed away this year – but he lived to see his most beloved book, The Very Hungry Caterpillar, hit the 50-year anniversary of its 1969 release. According to Penguin Random House, a copy sells every 30 seconds.

All ears Work. It’s where you hear some pretty good stories – but also, in my experience, where good stories are made. When I was a teacher, I started to think of work as essentially a form of theatre: you put on your costume, you get onto the stage, you

There are still some surprises left A while back I wrote about novelty, somewhat worried about the collective cynicism of humanity, that perhaps we feel there are no true surprises left. But the scientists aren’t about to run out of work: there are still unanswered questions, everywhere. Today’s