Thinking

From the moment the orchestra struck up at the New Theatre, Oxford, I knew it was going to be spectacular. I love musical theatre: I love the way you can feel the vibrations in your throat from the music, and from the pounding of feet on stage. It’s an electric experience which always leaves me […]

I have written previously about my hatred for television, and although I have not always been so vociferous in my dislike, I have always preferred radio, even in my teens and twenties. I like the way radio elevates words above all else, and allows you to form a picture in your own head much the way […]

I sometimes imagine my grief plotted on a graph, like the London Stock Exchange, or the milestones of a serial dieter. Time marches along the bottom, survival charted first in hours; then weeks and months; now years. Seven years of grief. Along the side, invisible markers of emotional wellbeing: happy; stable; broken. A thick black […]

In order to maintain a healthy level of fitness, one should take around ten thousand steps each day. I bought a pedometer and decided I would track my progress over the course of a few days. The last time I did this I was working full-time, and averaged almost 20,000 steps a day, thanks to […]

I have been driving for twenty years. I have driven around the infamous Arc de Triomphe, across several countries and on Britain’s motorways, dual-carriageways and rural B roads. I have been through police driving school, and am trained in high-speed pursuits. All in all, I am an experienced motorist. I am also a terrible, terrible […]