Friday, 12 April 2024

Book Review: The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time, by Mark Haddon

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Despite how this book is advertised, it's not a murder mystery. Well, there is a murder mystery within it but it's just a small part...
Saturday, 27 January 2024

Book Review: The Catcher in the Rye, by Jerome David Salinger

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Three days and three nights in the life of a teenage boy – Holden Caulfied – who has escaped school and is wandering around 1940s New York. ...
Sunday, 13 August 2023

5-day family trip to Marrakesh, Morocco 🇲🇦

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Here's a write-up of my trip to Marrakesh, Morocco last week with family. We were a group of 14 with a mix of ages from toddlers to seni...
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Saturday, 20 May 2023

Book Review: Prisoners of Geography, by Tim Marshall

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This book contains a nice succinct recent history of the modern world. Perhaps it is oversimplified in parts but that's what makes it so...
Sunday, 7 May 2023

Book Review: Of Mice and Men, by John Steinbeck

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This is a must-read. If you didn't have the pleasure of reading this book at school, do your self a favour and get it and read it. It...
Sunday, 30 April 2023

Walk: Otford station to Kemsing station in Kent, England

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I walked yesterday from Otford station to Kemsing station along the North Downs Way. You can find my route on the Ordnance Survey Maps app  ...
Wednesday, 16 February 2022

Book Review: We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves, by Karen Jay Fowler

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Warning: spoiler alert This book had some good ideas about memory. Specifically, when we revisit or narrate an old memory again and again,...