Experience
2001- *****-**** Ltd
As a Director of this high-technology startup company, I get to work from home and make the coffee, decorate and babysit. I also have to talk to a small number of customers and astronomical numbers of doltish sceptics …

I dislike several things about text. One of the most annoying aspects is its linearity. You have to wait until one of those point things before you can start to understand what the most recent bit was about….by which time, …

0:00 Midnight and I’m still not asleep. The LED’s blink back at me across the bedroom as I iterate my mental checklist of things-that-urgently-need-to-be-stewed-upon.

0:07 I begin an alphabetic list of favourite films, beginning with ‘Bond’ but only get as far …

British bulldogs. Not very politically correct. Simply rename it “Wolfhounds Achieve Parity”. A line of children stands across the street, arms linked and kids of the enemy ethnicity run at them with weapons. BBC News film the event (and maybe …

The corner of his titanium-grey eye just caught the dull red ballistic airbursts a split femtosecond before the slugs from a brace of 7.62mm Schneitzler semiautomatic machine pistoles hammered into the historic iron gates of Buckingham Palace. Instantly he perceived …

The three princes of Serendip were always making discoveries, by accident
and sagacity, of things they were not in quest of.
Horace Walpole 1754

In an era of increasing negativity, the Campbell Laboratory latterly acted as a haven of scientific open-mindedness. Fergus relished …

I distinctly remember seeing that streak of red and black shimmy down the left wing against the fluoresceine green of Old Trafford (no-one had colour tv in 1968, but the electron guns of my imagination were always set to maximum …

He’s a man I’ve never spoken to. I only ever see him riding his bike or running occasionally, but I’m completely convinced his character can be inferred from the way he moves and the calm look on his face.

He’s bald, …

My father employed a string of young men over 30 years or so as his apprentices. Brian, Michael, Adam, Len and Eoin were not my brothers but each of them was discussed across our formica kitchen table as if they …

I lived in a flat once which underlooked Edinburgh castle. Just far enough away to be able to hear the bagpipes during military tattoos without actually being inflamed enough to declare war on Scotland. That was to come later. My …