The places we've lived: Harriet Hapgood's piece on rented housing got me thinking about the places I've lived in Manchester, ...

A bumper Sunday edition of The Weekend List. This weekend has been a low-key one for me; yesterday was particularly marvellous, and for the ...

This is Sigmund Freud's porcupine, a bronze figurine the size of a hand, currently on loan to the Wellcome Collection as part of th...

It's been almost two months  since I last posted. Things have been plodding along nicely and I'd barely realised it's been so l...

This evening I went over to Ali’s house and we stood on his balcony while he smoked and I mused on the fact that I’m starting to ...

Yesterday morning I took the train down to Hathersage in the Peak District and by 10am I was gliding through the water of the outdoor swimm...

Happy weekend! This week I have been listening mostly to Laurie Anderson, feeling rubbish about my skin, but good about my feet which are ...

Much of this morning has been spent sitting in the sunny room at the top of my parent's house. This was my bedroom for most of the time ...

Five pretty special paintings and drawings by Kathryn Maple , who recently won The Sunday Times Watercolour Competition for her drawing of ...

This latest edition of The Weekend List has been put together on the 9.07 Manchester to Bristol train service. I got onto the train and foun...