ON COWRITING
A good writing day today, some of which I spent thrashing out a pitch with my co-writer. I think he was giving me the vote of confidence when he said, ‘You have this ability to change two words at the end and completely trash the whole project.’ Was that a vote of...
CHIVALRY IS ALIVE AND WELL
I enjoyed listening to David Mitchell's third episode in his series on Manners on Radio 4. Funnily enough I was talking about exactly that with Anne Dixon today. Anne Dixon is a very special elderly lady about whom I will be blogging soon. Can I just remind you that...
THINGS KIDS SAY
I love the recent programmes that have taken a wall-fly's view of small children interacting with each other. Today I was thrilled to stumble across an old journal containing some forgotten gems out of the mouths of my own babes. BEING CLEVER Overhearing Michael &...