Other Writing
I don’t just waste my time writing about domestic dirt. I waste it on sci-fi and bits of travel writing from when I started to explore a whole new continent.
In addition to writing appliance fiction I like writing science fiction. With a sprinkling of nano-this or a summoning of a sentient-that, there’s no law of physics or biology that you can’t take shocking liberties with.
Recovered communications provide the evidence revealing the unintended consequences of a high tech product launch. Warning: May contain traces of marketing jargon.
In 2002 The Economist ran an essay competition about the future of travel so I thought I’d take a pop. It’s interesting seeing what has come to pass since then and what hasn’t. Mag-lev’s in a vacuum tunnel? Who thought of that?
On car kits, cream in tea (yes), roadkill and our little car.
A prodigious cock-up at the car rental meant having to drive the roads of Cape Breton in a 5.0 litre V-8 Ford Mustang instead of an ‘economy-sized sedan’. Oh dear.