Writing Exercise: The First Time I Felt Dispensable
In 2015 I joined a short-lived writers’ group, hosted in a coffee shop several miles away. The host was an English teacher and ahead of the of the few occasions we met, she would set us a prompt to write to. This was one of them: ‘The First Time I Felt Indispensable’. She wrote me…
North: Chapter 3
3: North Now Night in City and information moved through its wide streets like a breeze of colours. Night in City and City, like the night, spread for miles in every direction: white building beside white building beside white building, so tall that they rested their spires in high clouds made cyan by the streetlamps…
North: Chapter 2
2: Everything the Finders Found (Part One) Three Months Ago cold coming they had of it, through hard travelling and a blizzard which bit into their cheeks and stung their eyes, the snow made violent by the more violent winds. The two Finders came slowly up the side of the mountain, their tread weary and…
North: Chapter 1
1: North Three Months Ago To the North came the first of the cold winds and it chased and corralled the snow before it. From the high places at the top of the world, it lifted itself and moved across the glaciers, above a river, and beneath the stars, with an icy speed and purpose.…
How To Cook Christmas Dinner
To spare you the full nervous breakdown experience of cooking Christmas dinner for your loved ones – and other members of your family too – this is how I’ve been cooking Christmas dinner for around eight or ten people. It’s evolved over the years so I hope this is helpful. Goals There are a few…