Problem solved I told myself and entered the adjacent room to see if there was a connecting door to the library, but as the door of that room closed behind me I just knew. I was locked in to one of the most energy efficient buildings in Germany. Read more [...]

Tonight was the 2009 launch for the letterbox Club on the 10th floor of The Penguin Offices on The Strand in London. Read more [...]

Everytime I got close to write a voice in my head would say, facebook facebook you must go onto facebook or tv tv must watch tv. Read more [...]

I bike through East London, down Brick Lane, past the art galleries, bangaladeshi restaurants, and fashion studios to Toynbee Studios. Each day this week I am ploughing the script, rehearsing Read more [...]

Lufthansa touches down at London Heathrow at 8.45am. At 11am I arrive at  Fen Court in The City of London. A sculpture inscribed with The Gilt of Cain, my poem,  awaits its unveiling at 11am. Read more [...]

I found my fathers birthplace today. Coincidentally it is 1st September, eleven days before the anniversary of my fathers passing in a plane crash in the mountains of Gondar on September 11th 1973. I visited the plane crash site in 1995 with a BBC film crewe. I leave my grandfather and grandmother to rest in peace. Read more [...]