When I was a student, I could fit everything I owned into a rucksack, two holdalls and a couple of plastic bags. I’d do it regularly: I moved house at least once a year from the ages of 17 to 23. There was a point in my life when it seemed reasonable to think, “God, [...]
October
23
I know someone has already invented the term “greenwash”, but if they hadn’t then I would have, OK?
Do you know what makes me cross? Well, if you’ve ever read my blog before, you’ll know that lots and lots of things make me cross. In fact if you judged my state of mind just on the basis of my blogging, you’d think I existed in a state of constant cross-eyed fury, steam permanently [...]
October
20
It’s almost enough to make you feel sorry for Osborne. Almost.
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One afternoon this summer, I stood by a fence in Lossiemouth, head tilted back and eyes fixed on a moving dot on the horizon. Beside me were my partner and another holidaymaking family, each of us staring in the same direction, watching the dot as it slowly became an aeroplane. Inadvertently we ducked as it [...]