Ode to W H Smith
Oh W H Smith, how I miss
The rows of sellotape
So carefully arranged between staplers
And ring reinforcements
The magazines on shelves of steel
That reached so high and stretched
Away, away
Jon Collins
Word weaver, tale teller, singer of songs, baker and candlestick maker. Pattern whisperer. Distiller of clarity from complexity. Professional focus on software delivery, with all that enables it.
My big TV moment - Tetbury Woolsack and Record Breakers
23 Feb 2016
A few years ago I was on the Tetbury Woolsack Committee, which organises the "internationally famous and world record breaking" Woolsack Races in that otherwise quite sleepy Cotswold
Hipsterism isn’t a fashion, it’s a reaction...
Hipsterism isn’t a fashion, it’s a reaction...
12 Feb 2016
...against Perspex and neon, against soft edged fonts and loud noises and being told what to think, say and do. It’
On writing Rush-Chemistry, and Egg Nog Gate
On writing Rush-Chemistry, and Egg Nog Gate
08 Dec 2015
“What’s next?” said Sean. “You can’t just leave it there.” Sean was the self-styled big cheese at Helter Skelter, the publishing
We are less and less in this together
We are less and less in this together
24 Nov 2015
I’ll stop with the philosophising soon, but bear with me on this one. Perhaps this is blindingly obvious to everyone else