Somehow, suddenly and quite surprisingly, it seems to be the middle of summer. This year is behaving quite strangely, sort of like a young and not very well trained horse. Not that I have any experience of those, obviously. But the period between November and March progressed with all the speed and enthusiasm of a…

I’ve had to do some quite creative stuff with hair clips recently. Twisty, layerering, plastered down, not-a-great-look kind of stuff. I mean, I’ve drawn the line at comedy cartoon hair clips, but still. I’m basically at that stage of in between bald and having an actual hair style, where the only two options are look…