Writing a review

The next challenge: 600 words for a review of anything. It could be a restaurant, film, book, anything. I started putting together a list of things I might review. Travel related? Grand Cayman as a tourist destination. Stingray City. Or maybe something I bought. Gear Fit 2 (not really interesting). My VFR 750? Or a game, perhaps. […]

Stoney

I’d told myself I was going to learn to scuba dive many times. Sometimes it was a personal ambition, sometimes a New Year’s resolution, sometimes just watching too much David Attenborough on BBC2 and wanting to see the underwater world in person. My new girlfriend, who already had 25 years of diving experience behind her, […]

The first 500 words

So I had my first homework: write 500 words on any subject. You might think that the freedom to choose from any topic would make it easy, but no; constraints simplify choices. Fortunately, inspiration was amongst the notes our course tutor gave us. “I would concentrate on recalling exactly the line of the roof, the […]