Name your weapons
Sadly, we’ve recently been learning the names of weapons. There’s one name that’s the most successful name for a weapon in human history.
Sadly, we’ve recently been learning the names of weapons. There’s one name that’s the most successful name for a weapon in human history.
A Sandstorm Summer Holiday – not the best advert for Lytham St Annes, I’m afraid. This is an attempt to write autobiographical flash fiction.
It was only by chance that Mrs SC and I found the Foundling Museum, but what a fascinating story about charity and children and the arts!
A photo essay about the shift from winter to spring in Gothenburg, collecting photos taken for my 2012-2014 daily photo bog GBG365.
The origins and perennial attraction of personality tests and their potential as hooks to motivate writing and for characer development.
A reading diary update – a wild selection of brief salty reviews of 5 of the 14 titles I’ve completed reading this first quarter of 2022.
Mrs SC and I have been in England. We went for my mother’s 100th birthday, but before the party, we spent a couple of days as tourists in London. It’s two years since we’ve been out of Sweden, and exactly two years since I was last in London. We stayed at a hotel in Bloomsbury. … More…
The pinman in the hazard triangle lives a dangerous life. Here’s a sonnet to celebrate his superhuman contribution to human safety.
Part 2 of The Return to Tema, in which, in 2018, I search for the house I remember living in and the school I attended back in 1963 and 1964.
When I was a child and my family were in Ghana, we lived in Tema while my dad worked on the motorway. Tema then was a small coastal town to the east of Accra. Small but busy. Nowadays, it is large and very busy. If it hasn’t yet been absorbed as an outlying suburb of … More…