Staring at a screen isn’t working today. The back of my neck is seized up like rusty gears sabotaged by rustier barbed wire that’s creeping up and under the base of my skull. Google assured me this is only a tension headache but none of the recommendations have worked. We’re two days into light stabbing […]

Sometimes it feels like I don’t have an original thought in my head. After a lost day with a nasty tension headache that kept me in a dark room, I eased myself back into a routine this morning. I woke at 4.30 cleared all the post-it notes on my desk into to-do tasks or added […]

There's a quote from Charles Bukowski that goes something like "The best part of a writer is on the page, the rest is usually nonsense." Shut and write I guess. It's good advice and if he was in my head right now he'd be yelling for me to stop wasting time on social media and […]

The idea is that we don't need anything other than our phones. It's a camera, recorder, music player, audio reader and there's an app store full of note-taking software loaded with added extras. I was going to anthropomorphise my phone that it hates me having a life but it's me letting the candy-coloured apps distract […]