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Hi Everyone, In the course of the past year, I have met Ai-Da. Ai-Da? Ai-Da who? Ai-Da the robot, the humanoid, a machine that creates—an artist. She (if I can actually call her that) creates (if I can call it that) has met with acclaim, curiosity and derisory commentary in equal measure. Whatever the response, […]

I’ve gone for a full-on, multi-lap, outdoors swim twice since lockdown easing, and both times it has felt brand new—as if I’d just discovered something I never knew before..

Hi Everyone, Inspiration. Where does it come from? I am often asked. Like many other authors, I don’t really have an answer. I am sure this is the case with most artists in whatever field they create. Sometimes, it is just a moment of clarity, when some understanding or insight gels. Or it may just

Now that we have reached Stage One in the gradual relaxation of Lockdown Rules in England, I have allowed my extended daydreaming to run at full tilt…

To take it or not? This is the question that has spun through the minds of some people I know from the minute development was deemed…

My beautiful house, Summertown Villa, is now sold, and I am moving. As everyone who has moved knows—and who hasn’t? —this requires sorting, purging and packing

Yes. Happy New Year! 2021. No point saying that the trajectory assumed in 2020 (the Roaring ’20s) never saw the light of day, at least for now.

So the pandemic rages on, despite multiple vaccines just around the corner. Many of us are not bothered by wearing masks, washing hands…

It’s not my intention to serialize Mine, but perhaps just a wee bit more… because a few of you have asked.

PART ONE

Chapter One (continued)

Because some of you have asked for it, here it is: the opening to Mine.

Sophie Taylor loved the North, the Far North, the frozen silences…