I released this on Wednesday 12 October 2005 on the side bureau in the lobby of Copley Inn, Garrison St in Boston, Massachusetts USA. The person who caught it joined BookCrossing and left this journal entry: Journal entry 7 by FinePrintReader(0/0) from Franklin, Kentucky USA on Monday, October 31, 2005 I was on a trip [...]

I’ve been listening to the “I Should Be Writing” podcast on my iPod about a wannabe writer, her struggle to write and lots of tips she has found useful for other aspiring writers, plus interviews with published authors and so on. This is her blog, which goes with the podcast, but it’s really only show [...]

Good news! According to Zest magazine (a women’s health magazine), coffee is good for you. Although reviled by anti-toxin types, it now turns out that small doses of coffee can reduce your risk of liver disease, bladder or colon cancers, Parkinson’s disease or diabetes, burn fact, and boost concentration or memory. And by small doses, [...]

Detroit The abandoned railway station in Detroit.  The abandoned train station in Detroit.  Close-up on the old railway station.  Buskers by the Eastern Market in Detroit.  Pumpkins and flowers at Detroit’s Eastern Market.  And the harvest theme continues with the table settings at the wedding.  Wedding cakes.  Diego Rivera’s signature on the ceiling beam of [...]

This article in The Sunday Times on Oscar Wilde’s grandson fighting a losing battle to maintain Wilde’s grave tickled my fancy. The grave is in Pere Lachaise, a beautiful old cemetery in the suburbs of Paris, and it’s one of the most frequently visited graves there (the other one is Jim Morrison’s grave). Unfortunately over-zealous [...]

I used to visit the Hunger Site and its sister sites all the time but then I changed jobs and forgot about it. I’ve rediscovered it now and want to bring it to wider attention as I think it’s a really good idea. The concept is that you click on a tag on the website [...]

Anonymous Lawyer tags itself as “stories from the trenches, by a fictional hiring partner at a large law firm in a major city”. It’s one of the best public blogs I’ve seen for ages – absolutely hilarious! Tweet

We arrived back in London early on Sunday morning. I was fairly tired and jetlagged but I just had a little nap in the morning and then stuck it out for the rest of the day. I took it fairly easy though. Today was my first day back at work and it was deadline day [...]

It’s our first morning in New York and it’s cold and rainy – although not as cold as Detroit or even Boston. We have popped into the Kinko’s on the end of our street to catch up on emails before we head out for coffee and sustenance. I’m not sure what we are going to [...]

Detroit was never on my list of dream travel destinations but I am really glad that life brought me here. We leave tomorrow morning but actually I would like to stay a few more days as there is still a lot more to see. Detroit was thriving in the early twentieth century as a centre [...]