Inspired by Kazuo Ishiguro's book "When We Were Orphans"

Shanghai

The onset of winter can be depressing, but it can also be something to embrace.

Autumn Leaves

I moved to a "market town as small as England" from a cosmopolitan continental European city and became fascinated by small-town culture.

Waiting For An Angel

We are obsessed with measuring things in today's culture. But there's no risk assessment when you're falling in love. And there are things that can't be measured - put your rulers away.

Count Your Footprints

If ever the newly formed South Downs National Park has a competition for an official song, this would be my entry.

National Park

Newbarn Hanger, a wooded glade on the dip slope of the South Downs, is one of my favourite places in the world. Once in a while a deer crosses my path. And perhaps once in a while you too will do the same.

Newbarn Hanger

This love song squeezes into less than three minutes the delights of my daily country bicycle commute and the fall of the Berlin Wall in November 1989.

November 1989

A love song for the social networking age

Pearls Acoss the Sand

My respectful song to an imagined British soldier serving in Iraq or Afghanistan. I am all too aware that there are real soldiers there and that some of them do not come back.

Standing Tall

"Rent a midlife crisis for £1,000 a week!"

Mike Knee