Two months behind schedule, and probably for the last time on here before I move onto a platform that isn't awful, anyone still here can read another post on my blog! . 'Man Make Dinner' is about food and gender and being in the kitchen with the women.

The next instalment of Panorama: the View from the Kitchen is out!. This time I discuss Ludwig Wittgenstein and the aesthetic properties of food!. As ever, please read, share and enjoy!.

Just in time for your morning commute, the second instalment of 'Panorama: the View from the Kitchen' is live! . 'Bolognese-y' is about not being Italian. Please read, share and enjoy. #foodwriting .

No one wants to hear it, but the best hangover cure is cleaning your house.

Hello Twitter! . I have started a new blog where I'll be posting monthly essays about cooking, eating and food culture. The first post is about working, chopping onions, and the creative benefits of menial labour. Please read, share and enjoy!.

Supple.

This weather is taking a mental and emotional toll. Might as well be fucking November.

That creeping, bittersweet feeling of realising that a quote you have had knocking around in head and notebook for years is, in fact, original. Your own words. Just a shame if you've based a few hundred words on it being someone else's.

After 6 years and about 7,500 miles (on a conservative estimate), me trusty kona bike is today going to a more mechanically minded friend who can give the old girl the end of life care she deserves. God speed. 🫡🥲

*train conductor voice*.'Important announcement. kssh kssh kssh stop bzzzz kssh kssh kssh vigilant buzz kssh Manchester Piccadilly. Thank you.'.

Do you ever move too quickly from editing your own work to reading a proper book and find yourself mentally editing Pulitzer winners or Nobel laureates?.

This piece was being finalised a few weeks ago, when it was freezing cold, and I felt like an idiot for writing about the newfound rarity of frosts. I don't want to say I'm glad of the current mild, sodden weather but. Read me in Issue 14 of @HinterlandNF!.

RT @HinterlandNF: We absolutely adore the cover of our latest issue, by photographer @GhaleTashir. Issue 14 is a climate writing special, g….

. Big things happening in work today!.

Will there ever come a day when I can spell 'rhythm' without spellcheck's help?.

There is strong new challenger to the Croc in the running for ugliest shoe ever.

At literary folks: what are you best recommendations for satires and pastiches, particularly for books taking the piss out of a form through outlandish imitation?.

Love our green city!. #manchester

I dream of the day when vegetarian meal deals are not rubbish.

I don't want to get ahead of myself, but for the first time in a long time there is a section of the weather forecast that is not rain.