James' Weblog

Usually my bookshelves are a place of complete order, the kind of categorising which would make a Victorian blush with pride. In its heyday, this entailed novels shelved according to genre/movement/themes. Naturally these ran in alphabetical order apart from my history section, which was filed according to conflict. I am somewhat ashamed/proud to admit that [...]

I’ve spent the last three months on a futile project, trying to get a pair of eccentric greengrocers to agree to me making a documentary about their ‘marvellous’ world. I’d saved up ten thousand pounds to film the project but that now will be coming off my mortgage, which in time will please my son [...]