It hadn’t even occurred to me that the front garden could be improved. It’s not like I hadn’t noticed it: I walk through it every day. There’s a back garden which is tended by the people who live at the back of the building, but no one had taken responsibility for the front. It didn’t [...]
If you buy a copy of Geoff Dyer’s new book, Jeff in Venice, Death in Varanasi you get a free copy of a second book. It’s not unusual to get good deals on books in the Amazon era, but it’s still welcome. In this case, the additional volume is not physical, but comes with reading [...]
It can be difficult to throw things away, to finally get rid of things. I like to keep the Sunday paper and read it over the course of the week, but they tend to accumulate. There’s now a nasty stack of items that need reading.
Last weekend I found a scrapbook of newspaper cuttings at my [...]
