I think I’m doing pretty well on the karma front. I managed some charitable giving this year, I attended the International Buddhist Film Festival, I’ve baked a few cakes and pies for the office… But what really set me over the top on my quest for...

I am currently sitting on the London underground writing this - a marvel of technology made possible by my fabulous new Blackberry (Crackberry in every sense of the tongue-in-cheek nickname). After an embarrassingly lengthy delay since my last update,...

This weekend I decided to take advantage of the lovely weather on Saturday, firstly because it was possibly one of few remaining nice days we’ll get this year and secondly because it had been a while since I had done a long London walk. From the Top...

It’s, once again, the wonderful and challenging NaNoWriMo - that’s National Novel Writing Month - during which time one tries to write 50,000 words in 30 days.  The premise is that, without writing something down, you’ll never write anything down. So...

Last week I had the opportunity to see an absolutely breathtaking performance at a tiny fringe theatre in South London.  I wrote a review of the show for Spoonfed: “Did you think poetry was harmless?” Lord Byron asks rhetorically to his...