Lost in Words

I nipped into my local ASDA yesterday and was greeted, actually ambushed, by their Grinch-inspired Christmas extravaganza plastered across...

I never used to check my writing with an AI detector before joining Medium . And even when I first published on the platform, I didn’t chec...

  Ever wonder what happened to names like Hilda , Norman , or Enid ? This nostalgic look back explores the once-popular British names that d...

It begins in October, with the sound of a loud bang in the early evening, followed by an occasional whoosh. It tells me Bonfire Night is al...

Whatever happened to storytelling ? It’s a question I’ve found myself asking quite a lot lately. I read that people want real stories, the ...

  I first read actor David Niven ’s memoir, The Moon’s a Balloon , published in 1971, back in the mid-1970s. It was the first “adult” book t...

Writing for pennies, I wait and dream, Writing for pennies, is not what it seems. Writing for pennies, just you and me, Writing for pennies,...

  This post covers my earnings at Medium for 2024-25.  2024 earnings from the time I joined the Medium Partner Program to the end of Decembe...

Just one of the dumb things that I did at school, when I was a lad. From Son of My Father. I remember the headmaster because of the one tim...

In 2022, I wrote a book called Son of My Father. I remember the moment the title came to me. I was pacing around my home, thinking — search...