Had a thoroughly enjoyable experience being interviewed on BBC Radio Leeds this week. Wes Butters – what a lovely chap. Butters by name and butters by … Well. As you can hear – he started by being ever so nice to me, and then tried to grill me about all of the politicians that I’ve […]
Be Enterprising. But don’t be Too Literal …
My day job involves fostering enterprise and ethical trading. Meaning that yesterday, I was all smiles when I saw a few of the locals in Addingham selling food and drink over their garden walls – to the thousands of people who have descended upon Yorkshire for the first leg of the Tour de France here. […]
David and Victoria Beckham. See you over the Cornflakes. Okay?
We are currently holed-up in a (‘well-posh’) caravan. Here in the Yorkshire Dales. We come to this wee hidey-hole very often. And this weekend we are up for a double treat. Because the Tour de France is heading – literally – past the end of our lane. Twice! On Saturday 5th and then again on […]
The only thing GRIM is the humour …
Very nice to see my mugshot and book cover in the biggest and bestselling mag for anyone in the UK who writes – ‘Writing Magazine.’ Wa-hey! The title of the article was ‘It’s not so grim up north’ and this got me to thinking about why we associate the North with being ‘grim’ anyway. Personally, […]
Bicycles … Yorkshire … Africa?
Me. Fresh as a daisy! Yeah, right. Back from sub-saharan Africa … a houseswap … a work-related project … and a ‘holiday’ (employing inverted commas here because is it *ever* a holiday when accompanied by humans under the age of 21 who happen to be your own, delightful offspring?) So much to report on and […]
Word Play
SCENARIO ONE Child (aged 9): Mum – why can’t I read the book that you wrote? Me: You know damn we…er I mean… you know why, sweetie. It’s got some swear words in it. Child: What? Like, you’re worried I’m going to go and repeat them to my teacher or something? Me: (wearily) Yes. Something […]