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.
A Sandstorm Summer Holiday – a memory from 1968
A Sandstorm Summer Holiday – not the best advert for Lytham St Annes, I’m afraid. This is an attempt to write autobiographical flash fiction.
Thomas Coram and the Foundling Museum
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!
Spring from Winter – more photos from the archives
A photo essay about the shift from winter to spring in Gothenburg, collecting photos taken for my 2012-2014 daily photo bog GBG365.
Personality questionnaires and character development
The origins and perennial attraction of personality tests and their potential as hooks to motivate writing and for characer development.
Wild Girls on the Salt Path
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.
To London in the rain: tourists on a bus
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…
Pinman lives a dangerous life
The pinman in the hazard triangle lives a dangerous life. Here’s a sonnet to celebrate his superhuman contribution to human safety.
Return to Tema: the search for house and school
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.
Return to Tema: the motorway then and now
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…