Lost in Words

Medium tends not to release too many details of stats relating to the platform. The details provided here are based on finding numbers acros...

So, I decided to try writing on Medium as a member of the MPP, just to see if things improved. And they did — a little. My first decision wa...

When I first joined Medium, I was not a paid-up member. I decided to give the platform a try, and the free membership allowed me to do that....

It is September 2025, and I have just completed one year of being a paid member on the writing platform, Medium. Having completed that year,...

  1)  A cost of living crisis would happen every few years.  Money was tight, inflation was often high, and austerity was the norm for man...

  Welcome to the modern age. The age of the short attention span. Was the last sentence too long? Maybe so, but it was shorter than this one...

  1) We would often have sugar sandwiches for tea, usually because we had run out of jam — or money to buy jam. White bread, margarine, an...

The big box in the corner. That’s what our first television was called. It's the early 1960s , and I have a memory of a rather big box t...

        Money was different when I was a boy. It really was different.  It actually changed when decimalisation was introduced in the UK on ...

When I was a young boy, my mother set me a challenge. It was during the long school holiday one year, and she was hoping to keep me busy and...