Category: For everything else


  • The Existential Crisis Caused by a Rogue Coffee Pod.

    This morning, I stood in my kitchen for 20 minutes, completely paralysed by a rogue coffee pod. Let me explain. We have one of those upright, spinny coffee pod holders, you know the ones that make you feel like you’re running a tiny café in your kitchen? It holds six vertical stacks of 10 x…

  • My Favourite Book

    My Favourite Book: The Old Man and the Sea There’s something about The Old Man and the Sea that that makes me make an annual pilgrimage to its pages. It’s the first book I read each year, the standard to challenge every book I read afterwards. It’s become a quiet ritual that sets the bar…

  • Finding some faith in an unexpected place – A tribute to Pope Francis

    Faith is a journey, a path that has to be travelled together, a path that must be travelled with patience, with love.” — Pope Francis I wonder how many millions of words have already been written about Pope Francis? I wonder how many more will be written now he’s passed? Well here’s a few more.…

  • Where to start? I guess it should be a gig I’ve played, I mean that what I’ve promised to everyone, the whole STAGE TO PAGE thing or maybe just about a beach I stood on in the incredible Outer Hebrides last year? Oooh! Maybe I should write about me trashing my guitar on Friday night…