Category: Blog

  • Déjà Entendu 

    Déjà Entendu 

    A study of contradictions. Lockdown is easing in all sorts of ways, yet a sudden spike in Leicester could mean local lockdowns reinforced. Worrying. I know a couple of people from Leicester who work or used to work (in one case), at the university. That is the University of Leicester and not De Montford by…

  • Briefly Upbeat

    Briefly Upbeat

    There were some further sales of Once Upon A Week in the past week. It is gratifying to know that there are some people who feel that my first children’s book is worth buying. I have to assume it is parents, or maybe teachers, or parents who have become teachers in lockdown. Thank you. There…

  • BRAND AND DELIVER

    BRAND AND DELIVER

    What to blog about today? This is hard. Thinking up something that people might want to read on a regular basis, especially when you are not a naturally gregarious person. Someone told me I have to make these blogs upbeat – with no negativity – and brief. As someone who sees the glass half empty…

  • Untitled post 1007

    It’s coming home! It’s coming home! It’s coming, football’s coming home! Good news for a lot of us and probably not for others. Of course, this means that Match of the Day is back on Saturday evenings, which is when I have been enjoying a rewind of Life on Mars and then Ashes to Ashes…