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True North 13 Jun 2013 | 08:29 pm
I am supposed to appear at the York Festival of Ideas on Saturday evening and talk about "Living up North" along with Paul Morley who has just written an enormous book on "The North (and almost everyt...
I Rode the Bus 15 Mar 2013 | 02:34 pm
I rode the bus today – if it’s good enough for the new Pope, it’s good enough for me. And where to go? I started out from Durham bus station and had my choice. The ends of the earth where new Popes li...
Holy Father, Holy Mother 13 Feb 2013 | 03:16 am
The Catholic Church is so busy absorbing the shock of the Holy Father’s decision to quit, it is missing the point. Holy mothers are quitting too. I’m a Catholic. Was a Catholic. Am a sort of Catholic....
Lost and Found 10 Feb 2013 | 01:17 am
My aunt is slipping away from us. Old as she is, frail as she is, even so - I don’t want her going anywhere. I want her here where I can see her, not a memory, not someone I love but cannot put my arm...
The Right Stuff 25 Jan 2013 | 07:20 pm
Third (and probably) final excerpt from A Year of Doing Good . I tried to join the lifeboat crew - for some reason they wouldn't have me. Tuesday, 10 May I walked into the lifeboat station past the li...
When the Snowdrops Come 24 Jan 2013 | 10:16 pm
Ok here is another extract from A Year of Doing Good: Saturday, 5 February I’ve had it in mind for a while to dig up a bunch of snowdrops for the little old lady who used to live in this house and who...
The Good Woman 23 Jan 2013 | 10:03 pm
Over the next couple of days, I thought I might run a couple of excerpts from "A Year of Doing Good" here on the blog. The media narrative focussed on my good deeds, in reality the book is as much abo...
How Do You Write a Memoir? 9 Jan 2013 | 07:33 pm
How to give good memoir (otherwise known as Top tips for memoir writing.) *get a life. You cannot write a memoir unless you live an interesting life. Live it. Live it the best way you can. Try to fit ...
A Year of Doing Good 8 Jan 2013 | 06:23 pm
The book is out. That's good. Two years in the doing and the writing and the polishing and the talking about, then it is all over and there is silence. I have no control over sales. Whether people wil...
The Back of My Cab 7 Dec 2012 | 08:15 pm
The news has been making me feel very old. Not just old. But like an old seen-it-all-before black cab driver. This is what happens when you start heading towards fifty - Here's who I have had in the b...
