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This photograph gives me the creeps. I wanted to share them with you.

I’ll be reading something from my new collection of stories, The Scent of Cinnamon, at an event called Ride the Word III in London later this month, along with four other fine Salt writers. I’d love to see you there. … Continue reading →

Regular readers may have guessed from my silence that I’ve been staying with my mother for a few days. While I was there she asked me to buy her a strawberry gateau for the freezer. After decades of disdaining ‘bought … Continue reading →

Police last night said the men might have died for the sake of two handheld games consoles.

Master of irony, Robert Mugabe, has decided to grace the Food and Agriculture Organisation summit with his presence. FAO should be honoured. If anyone can talk with authority about the horrors of food shortages created through incompetence or malice, it’s … Continue reading →

Thanks to the FAIL blog for this.

I went to get my hair cut today. I tend to put this off, not because I’m fond of longish hair on middle-aged men; on the contrary. But, well, barbers tend to be talkative, in the way that dentists and … Continue reading →