ON MEDIUM — Let’s be honest with each other here, let’s talk about money. I see there are plenty of — ‘how I made $4000 a month on Medium, how I made $200,000 selling something or the other, how I got rich selling my wonderful writing, just follow my guide and you’ll soon…

A wonderful prize by Medium When you become a Top Writer in any category on Medium, you get an automatic visit from a Medium Maid. This afternoon I was sitting there on the couch not doing very much, watching a bit of telly with the dog asleep on my lap…

Thoughts Of A Medium Widow ‘I walked in and caught him, there he was on his computer with that bloody Medium open again and that look in his eye, staring at the wall, all dreamy and away with the fairies. Why can’t he be like a normal bloke? I wouldn’t…

Lust on a January day — Luke Grey stood at the hotel window, looking up the river. It was late afternoon of a cold January, winter had definitely arrived. There was a slight mist giving the scene a dramatic, atmospheric charge. He imagined Virginia Woolf striding up the road on her way to give a lecture…

Where to get healing — Inspiration Ward Bed 1 — How are you feeling Mr Shakespeare, any better today? WS — My play, The Two Gentlemen of Mudchute, it’s not going well. The themes are all correct, all about friendship and love, forsooth, but there’s definitely something wrong and I can’t quite grasp it. Bed…

Was he mad, or just a bit different? — George III was the third Hanoverian monarch, and he is also the first of the Hanoverian Kings to eschew mistresses. Unlike the two previous Hanoverian Kings who were polluted with them, he was a family man through and through, and devoted to his wife Charlotte of Mecklenburg-Strelitzhaving, for whom he…

The humble pea, and what it means for us — What a tragedy it is, the modern world. While he also invented the mousetrap, hair curling irons and the steam pump, Sir Hiram Maxim’s most famous invention was the machine gun, and for doing that, he has a blue plaque in his honour on the wall of a house he…

A Productive Day — 7.30 am I’ve got a great idea for a piece for Medium, I’m almost there but I just need another good joke or two to get me over the line. I’ve got a completely clear day today with no distractions and I’m going to crack on and get it done. …

He loved a mistress, just like his dad — After last week’s discussion of King George I, we now move on to his pot-bellied, pop-eyed son, George II. George II became King of England on 11th June 1727 after the death of his pot-bellied, pop-eyed father, King George I. In fact he became not just King George II of…