I'd never seen or read Shakespeare's The Merchant of Venice before, but I did know about its central character: Shylock, the Jewish moneylender. And I had some notion in my head that the play was ...
Randi in the desert Happy 2025! We had always planned to spend Christmas with Randi's family this year, so it was both good and bad timing for us to land in Vegas barely a day after her uncl...
Annual Roundup Team photo on election day morning For us, 2024 was very much shaped around the UK general election. Randi worked from Scotland a lot during the first half of the year, and I ...
I have mixed feelings about my reading this year. On the one hand, I only managed 22 books, which is very few. Part of this is just down to our travelling patterns: mostly short weekend breaks, an...
Happy Christmas Eve! Since I'm in the US until New Year, I thought I'd post this 'lost blog' from 25 years ago. It was my second-ever visit to the States, and the first time I kept a diary... ...
Christmas partying with Lee, Klaudia, Annie, James and Paul Picture the scene. It's Wednesday evening. Randi and I are sitting on the sofa together under the warm glow of the Christmas tree lig...
