So this week I was nominated for an award and on the one hand, I intend to milk this incredibly from now until December 2, which is when there's a gala awards dinner and I'll need to use my oh, very…

I am sixty years old and I have never had a hobby before. Well, there was this one thing you'd call a hobby and I couldn't disagree, but I never called it that because I realise now that I regard the…

At about 02:30 local time last night, says William reading to the court from his notes, I observed a suspicious milk delivery. Now, I need you to know that I am not yet so old that what happens…

Okay, I would like to change some names here, except one is mine and I'm going to pretend I've forgotten the other. I think she's married, anyway, so half her name will have been changed to protect…

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I was criticised earlier this week for always watching films with a writer's eye. The implication was that only non-writers can see movies correctly, and the inference I took away was that there are…

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So it's been on my mind to tell you that when Nigel Farage made his faux resignation speech this week, I was in the House of Commons. I had it in my head to quote you a line from The Mary Tyler Moore…

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I've had a good week -- I signed a book contract -- but there was one part of one conversation that was miserable and I keep thinking about it. A writer nearing the end of her university course asked…

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I did not know until one minute ago that this line was written by Ian Fleming, and I did not remember until one minute ago that it begins with the word happenstance. It's a fine word. But the line is…

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This image is a view of Lowlands University from A Very Peculiar Practice by Andrew Davies. The show is now on the BBC iPlayer to mark 40 years since its first transmission, which means it's also…

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So I did this thing yesterday, I had a tune in my head, just ten notes or so, and for the first time in my life, I automatically went to my piano to try to work out what they were.

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Only this week, someone compared my piano playing to that of Rachmaninoff's. To be precise, they said: He's not as good as Rachmaninoff. Sorry, that's such an old joke. But then my desire to learn…

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