What this country is doing to me
Blog posted 02.07.09 Happy Canada Day everyone!
Sauces and sunshine
Blog posted 24.06.09 What is the difference between these two bottles of HP sauce?
Blog: Canada - where bank charges are usual
Articles posted 23.06.09 Bank charges are the norm in Canada, but at least you get a personal service in return. Would you get similar in the UK?
Clothes and chickens: how to get in trouble in Toronto
Blog posted 18.06.09 Welcome to Toronto. You can marry who you want, talk on the cellphone while driving and wear seal fur. But there are some things that you just can't do, or at least couldn't until a few years ago.
Where the wild things are
Blog posted 10.06.09 Let me introduce you to the raccoon, a creature unknown in the UK but very much present in Canada.
How I learned to stop worrying and not dislike Mississauga
Blog posted 03.06.09 A small confession – I haven't technically moved to Toronto. I'm about 25 miles southwest of Toronto, in a city called Mississauga, part of the Greater Toronto Area. And for somebody who has just landed from England in the past week, it may as well be Neptune.
A start has an end
Blog posted 27.05.09 Wine from plastic glasses in the park is no more. Getting on a train in the morning and eating croissants by lunch by the Musée d'Orsay – no longer...
Blog: Can’t draw, can compute
Articles posted 24.04.09The Guardian: Step away from the unhelpful paintbrush and the terrifying blank canvas and let your imagination run riot, urges Quin Parker
Think the sun is always round?
Links posted 17.04.09 Sometimes, it's rectangular, at least in the far north of Russia.
Blog: Are computer games a literary genre?
Articles posted 27.03.09The Guardian: A waste of words, or the driving element in modern gaming? Our writers beg to differ..