That’s right, Scotland. Again. It’s so depressing coming back home and being stuck in a terraced house surrounded by more terraced boxes, with a view across the other grey boxes of Coventry. Especially since I was up there five days this time – it was starting to feel like home. (That’s Braincroft lodge right in ...

I’ve just added my writeup of my 1997 trip to Malawi to the writings page. It used to be on the old version of this site, but I’d forgotten to move it to the new version, until now.

This week I went to Ireland, and I’ve just got back. We went on Monday afternoon and immediately after arriving drove right across to Galway where we stayed in a backpackers’ hostel. (Barnacles Quay Street – it was nice and clean, but I didn’t get much sleep because the other people in the dorm made ...