Watch any of these outdoorsy types lighting a fire with half a dozen wood shavings, a twig and a two dry leaves and you’re getting a glimpse into the creative process. ...

Never has a word been so devalued as poor old 'local'. It was clinging on by its fingernails when I started writing professionally in the Seventies, but the growth of ways to publish on line today, in whatever form, has driven the nails into its coffin. ...

I thought it was important to write it this blog. The most important thing in our lives sometimes needs to be other people. ...

Have you noticed that in business we’re urged to ‘go the extra mile’ when no travelling is involved, and to give 110%, even though it’s clearly a mathematical impossibility? ...