Check out the thunderclouds that were building up when I went training on the common last night. Beautiful. … [Read more...]

I just heard that John Hughes died of a heart attack on Thursday. I grew up wishing that my teenage years would be like a John Hughes movie, and the few moments that came close were the most wonderful. My friends and I used to recite lines from Weird Science and Ferris Bueller's Day Off and the Breakfast Club to each other. We'd sit in the dirt … [Read more...]

I have a new story 'Blinks Transport People' on the Notes From The Underground website. It was commissioned for their new Photo Stories series, which is a collaboration with Clare Wigfall. Each of the stories in this series is very short, and inspired by a photo, which appears alongside the story. They'll be published in pairs - my story is in … [Read more...]

I had a classic uncanny experience today. I took my boys to the park to chuck a boomerang around. The only other people there were four girls who were about 11. They were playing with a baby doll, taking it out of its pram, laying it on the grass, talking to it. They took turns putting the doll onto their laps while they shot down the zip-wire … [Read more...]