Death And The High Street.

I have decided, through repeated experience, that the most depressing place to go in my town is the Post Office. Needless to say, in line with almost every other town in Britain, it has some pretty stiff competition. For instance, until very recently it was almost TG Jones, a shop that had managed to get […]

The Perils Of Self Improvement.

It’s very difficult to tell how healthy one really is, on a day to day basis. Through dogged repetition and to blow away the Saturday morning cobwebs from the Friday night before I have chipped away at my Park Run result to the extent that I have finally broken the 24 minute barrier, and for […]

R.I.P Quality Control.

I wonder what Jane Austen would make of her fame, if she could be brought back to feature on a special Christmas edition of ‘This Was Your Life: Beyond The Grave’. I wonder if she would have the faintest idea just how influential her body of work was to become in the centuries since her […]