It occurred to me this morning that I’m becoming invisible. As wave after wave of new generations enter the scene from stage left, I’m increasingly the fool on the hill – recounting past adventures, and rolling my eyes at the surrounding cacophony. It got me thinking – about Midnight in Paris, and the book it’s…

A few months ago I switched from Android to iPhone. In the process of doing so, somebody somewhere sold my phone number to a marketing moron, and before I knew it, I was receiving multiple calls per day from random numbers. Perhaps the most annoying were from a pre-teen telling me to call a random…

Yesterday morning we set out bright and early for the “Glyptotek” – a vanity project built by Carl Jacobsen – the son of the founder of the Carlsberg breweries – to house his art collection. While wandering around the museum I found myself wondering if art is a really good tax break. It must be…

Today was very much a day of new things. A breakfast of overnight oats, a pilgrimage of sorts, a marching military band, a mermaid, an open sandwich and a glass of glogg. After filling ourselves with quite wonderful oats first thing we wrapped up against the cold and set out on foot across the city.…

After a 5am alarm call, a taxi at 6am, and breakfast at Heathrow airport, we finally took off a little before 9am, and set off towards Copenhagen, Denmark. We thought we were being clever travelling light – only bringing carry-on bags with us- so you can imagine our reaction at the departure gate when we…

You know the one where you’ve been promising to yourself to write something for days, but then this interesting thing appears in your peripheral vision, or that total and under disaster unfolds directly in front of you, or an entire universe of washing falls from the sky on your head, or you leave the kitchen…

I started writing this blog post fifteen minutes before the end of my lunch break at work – after losing the rest of my lunch break washing clothes, clearing the kitchen up, and so on. After writing a few words my work computer sang forth a message notification, and like a fool I looked. The…

After an early night last night, I have been up since 3:45 this morning. I got up to watch the Grand Prix in Las Vegas – which turned out to be not worth watching at all. Oh well. Several hours have now passed. It’s still ridiculously early. I’m the only person up and about. I’m…

We made our way into London yesterday evening to watch Stephen Fry starring as Lady Bracknell in “The Importance of Being Earnest”. It didn’t quite work out as planned, but I’ll get to that. The Elizabeth line delivered us into the depths of the city during the late afternoon, and we had planned on nosing…

I left Cornwall mid-morning yesterday after a long promised visit to my parents. The journey home felt oddly detached – with no mobile signal and no data connection on the train for several hours. The “free wifi” on the train was marginally funnier than my trains to and from Cornwall running an hour late –…