Learning how to teach English as a foreign language is making me think about how I learned it. I can’t remember. Everyone around me did. It’s a problem. It’s made…
Drinking at lunchtime
Back in the day, when that woman from the Darling Buds of May was still er, budding with Pop Larkin and hadn’t even met Michael Douglas who was still on…
Rurality
Not Your Heart Away “What spires, what farms are those? That is the land of lost content, I see it shining plain. The happy highways where I went and cannot…
One of those Facebook days
You know how it is As the cliché goes, it’s complicated. We met about six months ago and argued about almost everything and about two months ago we came to…
Read all about it
I’m not from round ‘ere. Eerily like Ben in Not Your Heart Away, I grew up in a country town. Also like him, I don’t think I knew anything much…
That Sort Of Girl
It definitely is my age. I’ve been thinking about sex more than recently. Well, my age and other stuff, anyway. Back in the impossibly long-ago days when Ben scored his…
Off the rails
I think it’s my age. I’ve been thinking about delinquency. Just a phase I’m going through, probably. Reading Not Your Heart Away poses some problems for God-fearing folk who saw…
The backstory
The screenplay of Not Your Heart Away went off to a proper, professional script-editor a few weeks ago. For flattering but still unknown reasons despite doing this all of a…
Liz speaks
This is the review from the person whose voice I stole for Liz’s character: Now that I have worked out the title of Not Your Heart Away is taken from…
Fourth of July
It’s a cold, blustery Fourth of July in England, American Independence Day. The day the middle-class revolutionaries from Cromwell and the Pilgrim Fathers onwards came up with a new world…