Tag: West Magazine

  • Looking back: Our First Father’s Day

    Looking back: Our First Father’s Day

    Looking back, here’s a piece I wrote for Western Morning News to mark my first Father’s Day as a dad.

  • Better Latte than never…

    Better Latte than never…

    I’m well aware that coffee is no real substitute for genuine sleep. But when a decent stretch of sleep isn’t on offer, due to my baby son teething / having a cold / being hungry / doing a secret experiment on how long sleep-deprived parents can last before losing the plot, coffee is a great…

  • The Beach House, Exmouth Review

    The Beach House, Exmouth Review

    “After a brief journey of well-rehearsed small talk, we came to a halt. Stepping from the coach onto an ocean of gleaming gravel, I surveyed what was to be our overnight dwelling: The Beach House. Such a pleasing, quintessentially English façade: the type of place where Miss Marple would have lived, if she’d won the…

  • Meeting author Tom McLaughlin

    Meeting author Tom McLaughlin

    Tom McLaughlin’s written some very cool sentences in his books – or funny ones, which are, surely, the same thing. It’s not for nothing that Tom’s often compared with David Walliams

  • Mum’s the word…

    Mum’s the word…

    Over the years I’ve interviewed quite a few high profile people. One of the most inspirational amongst their number was Sarah Turner, known to the world as The Unmumsy Mum.