MUSIC - NOVEMBER The space bar on my laptop went on the fritz as I was battling a deadline earlier this month. Met the deadline (short story...

MUSIC - SEPTEMBER BOOKS Swann's Way by Marcel Proust (novel, audiobook) So I've now read Proust. Not all of À la recherche du temps ...

The two biggies since the last diary: we moved house we went back into nationwide lockdown. It feels like more has happened, or at least I...

MUSIC BOOKS So midway through the year and I've read 53 books... On track for 100 in a year for the first time since I started counting....

MUSIC EXTRAS I I got a bit of media coverage after a session I ran for the Otago Energy Research Centre, which was followed by this piece b...

MUSIC INTERLUDE I started writing a short story yesterday. I took my laptop to a different building at lunchtime and wrote for 30 minutes su...

MUSIC - FEBRUARY BOOKS The End of October by Lawrence Wright (novel, audiobook) Foresaw an influence pandemic and the disintegration of lif...

BIOGRAPHICAL NOTE So we live in Dunedin again. The Burns Effect is real. I start my new job (Net Carbon Zero Programme Manager at the Univer...