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It’s rather unsettling when foreigners know more about your city than you do. Once, a Nevis-based diving instructor recommended a plain-looking Vietnamese place at the top of my road, which later became a regular haunt.

Last week, several international speakers … Read more →

‘People who like Celine Dion are people, too,’ has to be the best tweet of the last couple of weeks. It was referring to a New Yorker article about Carl Wilson’s Let’s Talk About Love, which has just been … Read more →

Alain de Botton has a new book out, Art as Therapy, written with the philosopher and art historian John Armstrong. To illustrate their point, they’ve put up a load of giant yellow Post-it notes around the Rijksmuseum.

I couldn’t … Read more →

‘If the missus is happy, I’m happy,’ Mark said during our recent Skype call. Hot Danish agrees.
‘We’d better make some plans for the weekend,’ he said over a rare weekday lunch.
‘But you don’t like making plans,’ I replied.… Read more →

The news of the enormous avalanche on Everest which killed 16 Sherpa guides and the consequent walkout among their colleagues because the government’s compensation was only around £240 per victim led to Jeremy Clarkson commenting on how difficult it is … Read more →

‘Right, let’s go,’ Hot Danish hissed during the final Savasana pose, as we neared the end of our yin yoga session. We tiptoed over resting bodies, down the stairs and parted at the changing rooms. In the reception I saw … Read more →

We’re a generation lacking time, patience and satisfaction. We speed text, skim-read Facebook posts and tweets. We have deactivated the ‘deep-reading’ facility of our brains, which prevents us from engaging with serious book reading, according to cognitive neuroscientist Maryanne Wolf … Read more →

Why does a holiday seem so long ago within two weeks of returning to humdrum working life? I was feeling a touch of the post-holiday blues once the jet lag and my tan started to fade. What’s more, I realised … Read more →

‘You’re looking a bit ‘80s,’ Liz’s new man observed, rather bluntly. He wasn’t referring to her skin-tight pants, but to what was underneath – her neat Brazilian look.
‘What would he have preferred?’ I quizzed Liz.
‘A Hollywood,’ she replied … Read more →

I’ve started reading The New Digital Age: Transforming Nations, Businesses, and Our Lives by Google’s Eric Schmidt and Jared Cohen and am already finding it a bit of a PR stunt for all things digital (there are some thought-provoking critiques … Read more →