I could hardly believe my ears. “So you’re telling me you had to make another appointment?” I asked incredulously. My friend stirred her skinny frappé, clinked her spoon onto the saucer and took a sip of the steaming brew. “Yes,” […]

Carrying on my theme of belief (see previous entry), I’ve been watching the always-entertaining Alain de Botton on TED. Back in 2009, I recommended his talk entitled A Kinder, Gentler Philosophy of Success, in which he spoke about the gulf between […]

When was the last time you read a novel? A big, chunky, doorstep of a novel? Hundreds and hundreds of pages of densely packed text, which kept you enthralled for hours at a time? OK, maybe that was a bit […]

OK, OK – I know you’re busy so I’ll keep this brief. Let me guess – we’re hurtling towards Christmas and you still haven’t got a present for Auntie Beryl? Been there. If you’re considering an e-reader, by the way, […]

I’m getting a new iPod Nano, it seems. At first, I thought it was a hoax – yet another spam email that Outlook had failed to spot. But no. This time, it was the real Mac-Coy. The stories in the […]