And it’s tragic that few people have heard of it — You’d think a show headlining Orlando Bloom and Cara Delevingne, with a solid supporting cast of names you don’t know but faces you’d likely recognise of Joanne Whalley, Alice Krige, Andrew Gower, Indira Varma, Simon McBurney, Tamzin Merchant, and David Gyasi, would be better known. Released to only a small…

What’s the point in paying extra to get rid of ads when content creators find ways to sneak ads in any way? — I pay $13.99 a month to Google/YouTube. It’s a lot to watch something that I would hope would be mostly ad-free. These days, it feels like the ads find their way in any way. Many content creators get sponsorships and they place the ads within the videos so that they’re…

Did someone say something about you when you were young that has stayed with you? It happened to me. But, is my life what she foresaw? — In my late teens, my grandmother took me to a Yoruba woman who could see beyond this realm. I sat there, arms crossed, lip pushed up, and attitude set on max self-righteous, looking at my shoes. Why would Granny bring me here? Granny took me to this psychic woman, even…

I didn’t expect this to happen as I was going to continue monitoring my old phone and keep it charged — I was thinking about writing an article recently about the state of my current phone. My battery has been dying quickly. I had to delete every app I had installed, especially the ones that needed more attention and had sent out more notifications. I was down to the bare bones…

Writing Prompts from Street Photography — In our local area there is a culture of passing things on when you don’t need them anymore. People will leave things out in front of their houses for other people to take — I have written more about it here. Some of my best ‘finds’ in terms of my…

Because English doesn’t seem to have one — At the weekend, I finished my latest creative project — the third book in the Salmonweird series, a cosy crime fantasy which I describe as a Cornish Death in Paradise with ghosts. Don’t worry, I’m not going to use this post as a sales pitch! …

Writing Prompts from Street Photography — Quite some time ago I wrote a writing prompt about an empty ring box, which you can read here if you are interested. Recently I spied this ring sitting on a park bench in a children’s playground, and thought it would make a nice companion piece. We were the only…

She worked at the truck stop and she really was an amazing person and a wonderful mother — We’re still at the campground. We’ve been at the campground since August 6th and haven’t been back into town but once in that time. We had a friend come visit us today and he needed help with some electrical issues on his van. Mike helped him but as we were…

Don’t battle with me if your writing doesn’t look authentic — Upsetting people isn’t really my thing, but I’ve had to because of the new rules I’ve had to upset a few writers over the last few days since Medium made its changes. I’ve had to run more stories through multiple AI content detectors than ever before. In addition to that, reading so many stories over time, it’s still fairly easy to distinguish machine writing from…