My son was born in our house, in Bushy Park Road. His Christian names are Lindsay James. He was born early Saturday morning, and soon after he was delivered, followed shortly by our daily paper – the Surrey Comet. On the back of the Comet that day, on the sports page, was an article entitled ‘BUMPER […]
Writing
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The Ugly Duckling
The ugly duckling song came into my head this morning. For those who do not remember the old story, it is about a duck who is disliked because he is ugly – but he turns out, in the end, to be a beautiful swan, whereupon he is admired by all. And I thought – there […]
Belfast and Beyond ‘Writing’
I’ve always wanted to go to Northern Ireland. I find the accent sexy. Guys with a real Belfast accent – that clipped, fast, adenoidal and charmingly aggressive burr – gets my motor running. So it was no accident that I was taken to a city as aphrodisiac to rewrite and reproof Bastardography. The Editor and […]
Even the Boss should clean the Loo
Watching Master Chef earlier this year, something happened which gave me, if you’ll pardon the pun, food for thought. At one point in the penultimate episode, one of the contestants was running late, and one of the others went to help her. He had a deadline too and this episode would put him into the final […]
Writing for Everyone?
The commercial part of me says I write for everyone, but I do also write somewhere for a specific lesbian/bi audience because I do see myself going into a bookstore and perusing and reading the back of this book and thinking, that speaks to me. Somewhere I think we compartmentalise who we write for, and […]