The weather on this coast changes faster than you can pack a jacket. In three days I watched fog swallow a lighthouse, burn off by noon, and return before dinner, and I learned to stop checking the forecast and start…
Read More“Sintel” is a fifteen-minute fantasy film from the Blender Foundation, released in 2010. A young woman crosses a frozen, dangerous world in search of a baby dragon she once rescued, and the journey costs her more than she knows.Like the…
Read MoreThere is a kind of travel that is about arriving, and a kind that is about going. The slow train belongs to the second. It stops at stations nobody has heard of, waits for connections that may or may not…
Read MoreThe first ferry of the day leaves before the sun is fully up. There are a handful of passengers: a few commuters with coffee, a van driver asleep in his cab, and someone like me, who came for the crossing…
Read MoreChildren learn instruments because someone makes them. Adults learn because they want to, which is a better reason, and a few habits make it far more likely to stick.Practise a little every day rather than a lot at the weekend.…
Read MoreA 75% keyboard keeps the function row and the arrow keys but drops the number pad and squeezes everything else…
