Posted on by Craig Faulkner
Morning arrives with a scream, as it does most week days. Despite the hour, I'm relieved to know it isn't mine, though after some of the dreams I've had lately, it wouldn't surprise me if it was. The scream comes from an alarm clock, but it sometimes takes my brain a few seconds to figure that out. It's the k… Read more »
Posted on by Craig Faulkner
In April 2016, my employer moved the office I work in from my home city of Coventry to the nearby town of Rugby. Over the course of a weekend, I swapped my usual two buses each way for a single train ride with a generous dose of exercise at either end. Having grown up, lived and worked in Coventry all my life… Read more »
Posted on by Craig Faulkner
I’ve recently completed the first draft of a new novel. At 89,000 words, it’s not the longest I’ve written, but I’m pleased with how it reads. It still needs editing, and that’s something I’m very inexperienced at, but I’m happy with the overall story and the couple of (admittedly somewhat biased) people who… Read more »
Posted on by Craig Faulkner
Lately it seems like I spend most of my time waiting for something. And it's no big consolation that I'm not alone. Recently published statistics show, for example, that we spend an average of 653 hours of our lives waiting for buses or trains and no less than seven years waiting just to fall asleep! (It's wo… Read more »