Had enormous fun gabbing to Helen Lisowski and Rob Lambert over on their Stationary Freaks podcast – how do you find the perfect colour of notebook? What is the correct use of fountain pens? Do
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This is Boring: Boring V at the Conway Hall
For the second year in a row, I went to the Boring conference: The Boring Conference is a celebration of the minutiae of the mundane. Last year, speakers discussed things like why all national anthems
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Face to face with Jane Eyre
Had a lovely day – I had decided yesterday to pitch up at the Folio Prize Festival at the British Library. I was late and missed most of the first panel, so I lunched vaguely and turned up for the first
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The Chronophage – the Eater of Time
One of the Cambridge landmarks that features in the latest book is the Corpus Clock. The clock is this large, imposing creation set into the corner of Corpus Christi College where Trumpington Street and Bene’t Street meet.
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Adventures in Cocktails: Harry’s Bar in Venice
Harry’s Bar is famous for its dry martini, and speaking as an afficianado of dry martinis, this seemed the perfect destination for me that first night in the city. I had booked a weekend on the
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The Black Squirrels of Girton
On Saturday I went out on my first ever solo geocaching expedition. Someone recently showed me how it was done, and I was quite enchanted with the whole idea of it. There’s a marriage of
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Embracing your inner narcissist with Google Glass
So, recently it was finally my turn to play with the Google Glass kit at work. I did find that quite cool. The bare bones kit comes not so much as glasses as a pair
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Location Scouting – Blakeney
Another fantastic day – I drove out to Blakeney, looking for locations for Martin and his house. It was idyllic and strange and faintly off-kilter – in short, exactly what I was looking for. I
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What I want for Christmas… Part One, the Knitting Clock
Behold! It’s a knitting clock – not a clock made of knitting, but a clock that knits. Apparently it costs a cool 200,000 Norwegian kroner. I know nothing of Norwegian money, except that 200,000 sounds like
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