My father died when I was 14. A slightly distant man, he divorced from my mother when I was 10, and spent his remaining years in regular but awkward contact, trying to develop a relationship with his teenage

In my old English, seafaring home town of Bristol there is a timeworn cemetery called Arnos Vale.    When I was fortunate enough to visit the Caribbean in 2012 I ended up walking through Arnos Vale bay

In the time of Christopher Columbus, a large part of the population of Europe still believed the world to be flat. Even though in 294 BC the Ancient Greek astronomer Eratosthenes had clearly showed this

My wife is the kindest person I know, and most of the time she has no idea. Recently we were in a supermarket in the north east of Bristol in the UK. As an area to live it’s not the worst, maybe not the

I have been thinking how to say hello and say something interesting. Well something happened a few years ago that seems to have largely defined who I am now and seems worth telling. So here goes. In 1996,

There are three reasons why I wanted to share this photo 1) It’s of my daughter 2) An excellent piece of art on display for free (thanks JPS) 3) It was taken outside a gay club on a Saturday morning. There