The duck was so dry it favoured shredded cardboard. The plum sauce was a cross between cough medicine and something the duck would deliver after a food complaint of its own. Read more [...]

I am on stage getting ready to read. Each of the people on the panel are on the Intelligence files of the police and police intelligence are in the conference audience. Read more [...]

Not sure why I went home cause I didn't get chance to spend any time there. I Travel from London to Bradford. it takes forever cause it's a Sunday. I check into the Hilton near the train station.  Read more [...]

I did a reading at The British School of Brussels this morning. I am all finished and waiting for my cab, the sound of hockey sticks clack in the background. I get to eurostar, buy another ticket to get Read more [...]

Eurostar is off the hook, brill.   It takes  less time to travel from London to Brussels  than from London to Manchester.  A charming Canadian meets me at the airport. He was  Head Read more [...]

Lots happened this past week since returning from The Arctic which was beautiful, threatening and big, very big.    I’ve been touring  around the country, Manchester, Liverpool, Rochdale, Read more [...]

It’s 11am, the ship travelled through night storms and in morning we arrive at Uumannaq, the home of our guide Ludwig . It’s spring in Uumannaq, in winter it’s dark for two whole months and there’s a high suicide rate. We visit a children’s home and dogs howl outside as the social worker greets us at the door. “if they don’t do what we command “ he says in a rich Danish accent “we kick them” . There’s a silence. “There’s high alcoholism in the Inuit people hence the relatively high numbers of children in care.” He is about six foot tall, a tower of a man. “Welcome” he smiled broadly. Read more [...]