Grey and Steel* (a poem about a train journey)

Night’s saturnine blanket still lays heavy, the moon’s all seeing gaze shines bright and steady. Dew glistens where it settled, life comes a stir, milk bottles tinkle, engines sputter to a purr. Most sleep masked eyes still yet to flicker, while shovel and broom clear the last scraps of litter. The masses still adrift on …

Happy New Year / What a lot of “I”s

WHY IS IT SO HARD TO GET BACK TO WRITING?!?!?! I’ve been meaning to return to writing for days, if not months, but another scroll through my unchanged Facebook and Twitter feeds keeps getting in the way… Just maybe that thing I’d be missing is the key to my creative flow. I’ve got script stuff …

An Unremarkable Child

Our new baby boy was born mid-September, with a normal delivery, but after a couple days in the hospital, struggling to feed, we learned he has a cleft palate. The palate is only visible when he has his mouth open, where you can see a vaulted arch, reaching into the roof of his mouth, in …

Please Hold…

My apologies for the radio silence, but as previously threatened, on September 17th at 1937hrs, a brand new male human was delivered into the world; 9 days late, and 8 miles off target. As a direct result of said arrival all my creative energies are being redirected to handling our unreasonable first born, and his …

site under construction

I’ve not been nearly as prolific posting to this blog as I’d hoped. Hopefully my caveat laden intro/preamble established a good foundation of limited expectation. My HEAVILY PREGNANT wife and I are currently awaiting the arrival of our second child THIS WEEK, which is the main reason why this is a poorly timed foray into …

Reigning Cats & Dogs

Some of us are Dog people, some are Cat people, there’s no room for Rabbit people, or Budgie people in our binary world of animal lovers, pick a side or move on! I’d always believed myself to be a dyed in the wool, true blue, Dog person, but a sneaky one that loves Cats when …

What is a Mohosapien? WELL…

I don’t know, I just thought it was a funny word and it’s too late to walk away now. The Moho bit I can explain, but I need to take you back, way, way back to Berlin in the distant past, some point in the mid '00s. It was spring and I was on a …

Why do I write…?

I write because I have to, but that doesn’t sound like the right answer, at least not for me. I write to give my thoughts substance, to prove to myself my thoughts “exist” and to evidence them with a degree of narrative form. Inside my head they don’t necessarily have a structure and so exorcising …

This is the thing…

So here's the deal - this blog is here to encourage me to write in between projects. Plus it's much cooler to reference than my LinkedIn profile, which says a lot about the jobs I've managed to get through the interview stage for, but not a huge amount about me as a person. I'm a …