Strike A Pose
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Hqh7lwaNKw&t=9s I watched Strike a Pose - which is available on Netflix now - twice this week, and cried both times. I found it both heartbreaking AND inspiring, the sadness coming from the idea of people not quite reaching their...
Death of a Devil – Week One
Well hey there. It’s been a while. What have you been up to? Me? Oh, I wrote a book. Another book. I think – save for a post celebrating Danny's first birthday - I last posted here when I was in South Africa last October. That was the week I started work on Death of...
Not The Booker Prize Long Long Longlist
OK, this is huge news (for me). I’m on the Long long (long) list for the Guardian’s Not The Booker Prize, and it’s the first time I’ve ever been on a good list, as opposed to one of those “People we’ll round up when our day comes” ones. I am genuinely excited....
Christmas is Heaven
Christmas is my favourite holiday; a way to banish the darkness, celebrate the sheer excess of life, and remember - with tears and smiles - the times and people past. Our house fills with memories and memorials at this time of year, and with the smell of...
YEAR ONE
2015 was the worst year of my entire life. I’ve talked, before, about losing my mother. Her absence – approaching and actual - filled my life. I tried to mask the approaching nightmare by doing things – by keeping busy at work, by burying my head in the sand,...
Thursday Sonnet
Thoughts on the British Situation by a visitor to South Africa "We’re all in this together til we’re not," Said Tessie as she stood before a crowd And said “Of Auslanders we’ll soon be shot” “Huzzah!” “Hooray” They cried as one aloud, As “Them and Us” became a policy...