It’s my tradition when a new Fiona Walker hardback launches to share the love. This year, that means Big Love. We all know that chocolate biscuits, confectionary and bottled drinks are getting smaller as shrinkflation keeps on thinning down the goodies, and novels are no exception. The all-absorbing, family-sized read is an increasingly rare luxury, … Continue reading Bigging up books

I’ve made a short vlog which, like doctors Who, Foster and Caligari, I can only watch from behind a sofa cushion. If you’re brave enough to sit through it, you’ll note there are a few key differences - an absence of qualified medics for one - but I nevertheless like to think of Max the … Continue reading A video to introduce The Country Set

It's been a curious affair keeping my blog updated regularly through the past couple of years because the Bat-codes that were needed to open up the old website for maintenance were mislaid long ago, so I could only get in through the 'front door' as my first web designer called the blog dashboard, which feels like … Continue reading Archive Blogs Jan 2015 – March 2017

The trouble with cutting and pasting archive blogs is that none of the links work and the pictures disappear. It's rather like picking up an ancient copy of Country Life in a waiting room to find all the best property ads and competitions ripped out, and a moustache drawn on The Hon Binkey Briggs-Slater's photograph … Continue reading Archive blogs May 2013 – Nov 2014

I never know what to do with old blogs, but as an inveterately nosy flipper of vintage web-pages and lover of ageing diaries, I'll pop them up here in three chunks to act as a reminder to me to keep my blog updated. These old ones are really only for devotees of my shamelessly sporadic waffling … Continue reading Archive Blogs Sept 2011 – Oct 2013