Click the link below to a short story I wrote when I was a young man of about 25 years old living in London. I found this forgotten manuscript the other day in my cellar. The story was written on a typewriter hence the rather dated look of the typeface and the use of the correction fluid Tipp-Ex.
At the time, I sent the story to a number of women’s … Read the rest
Detail from a Rodin sculpture depicting monks in varying states of mind including in despair. Evagrius wrote in the 4th century about how to lead an ascetic or monastic life but his writings have relevance in modern times for all sorts of lives.
The Seven Deadly Sins of the Christian church were based on the “Eight Thoughts” compiled by the early church father Evagrius of Pontus in the 4th… Read the rest
Is this the future that awaits Falsterbo? (Photo: Peter Goddard. This image is photoshopped.)
“Your next-door neighbour is the sea” was the headline for a recent property ad for an expensive house located on the south coast of Sweden. “The sea could soon be moving in” would probably be a more accurate but less selling headline.
The copy of the ad went on to state “With a sea view” but … Read the rest
