[ad_1] To begin with, my student visa application was bungled. I’ll spare you the details, but this essentially meant doing everything short of bribery to make my case to remain in France. It also meant I was unable to apply for a rental as I had planned, and ended up rooming with a chain-smoking, short-tempered […]
[ad_1] I’m in lockdown again – and this time it’s making me weird. As the deadline for my third book approaches, as years of unmanaged ADHD compound into complete mental paralysis and I find myself deleting more words than I write, I’ve turned off my phone and unplugged my modem to give writing my fullest […]
[ad_1] Today I’m trying to memorise a speech I will give at my eldest daughter’s wedding. The wedding is next Friday but it will be last night by the time you read this, because I file this column a week ahead of its publication. So, as I write, it’s a week until my daughter’s wedding […]
