"When a child writes a story she experiences her personal world as something socially valuable: her egotism, if you will, is configured as a force for good; by writing she makes herself important, ...
It appears I've been wrong all along. Peter Kay isn't just some bloke that remembers biscuits and hates fancy foreign food like garlic bread. He is Hull's favourite funnyman. How do I know this? W...
Margaret Atwood's "ten tips for writers' block" (we must assume that she wants us to overcome this state, rather than be consumed by it), which first appeared on her blog, were printed in The Guard...
I was on the radio today and, having said on air that I'd call in to and have a poke about the new Hull History Centre, I thought I better be true to my word. So I slipped in through the back door....
Hull History Centre - the new £10m pound home for the city's archives - opens for business today. So I expect that lots of old folk will be heading there to look at old stuff and will be helped by ...
Headed over to Manchester for a couple of meetings and a bit of fun while M did her BBC thing. I like the place and, even when you're strolling about without much of a reason, as I was for the bigg...
What better way to start a cold day that would eventually involve the production of a short film than to eat bacon sandwiches? My sidekick with camera can certainly rustle up a mean butty in his ki...
I love technology and I admire good design but I dunno about Nexus Ones. I dunno about iPhones either. I certainly baulk when I walk past Currys Digital and see the POS signage telling me that it's...
So, this is it, then. 2010. Or, Twenty Ten, as we seem to be being encouraged to utter. The Tens. The simple, one syllable decade. No doubt one rammed with war and poverty and the ongoing design ev...
I don't go back very often but thought I better glance backwards to see what I wrote at this time last year. I note that I was ill then, too. I'm almost over this thing that's threatened to knock m...
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