Well hello there …

and would you look at that – a visitor! Hail, stranger, and welcome to my world.

Photo and Paint by Emma Allen

I’m an ex-guitar-slinger turned all bookish and then parkinsonian. But you can’t have everything, right? This is where you can access my thoughts on anything from the history of science to cricket, passing by music, parkinson’s and the travails of an everyday writer and editor on the way. I’ve written for the quality press (hark at me), magazines of several hues including The Guitar Magazine and All Out Cricket, websites including CricInfo, Prospect, and The Wellcome Trust, academic essays for Oxford University Press and others, as well as writing an award-longlisted book on cricket, a book on Parkinson’s and a splendid (or so I’m told) novel. I also take photographs. Of pelicans. And trucks. And road signs.

I’m still wrapping my head around the navigation for this site (or wrapping it around my head) so bear with me, but do have a noodle around, as I’m sure you’ll find something to read …