Month: January 2012

County Durham is a big place, believe me I know. I’ve spent all day driving between the nine different buildings from which my team is working, scattered across the County. The drive from Tanfield to Crook was squally but I had the wind behind me on the way to Spennymoor. Seaham was definitely bracing and … Continue reading It’s a big place

One of my favourite books, I have several, is 'If on a Winter's Night a Traveller' (Se una notte d'inverno un viaggiatore) by Italo Calvino (1923 - 1985). Only read in English.  I can't pass a telephone ringing in a room I am passing without the book coming back to me. On the back of … Continue reading Italo Calvino

New Year’s resolutions are funny things. Every year I pretend to myself that I’m not going to fall in to the trap of trying to make myself stick to something that I have no chance of achieving. I tell everyone that I don’t do them but deep down somewhere inside, a little part of me … Continue reading Happy New Year