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Family blogs & websites
Pages from the old FICTION on the WEB site (archived)
Some of my favourite short stories (external links)
Some of my favourite poems (external links)
Some of my favourite pre-millennial video games
Some of my favourite theatre experiences
- My films & screenwriting blog
- My mum's colour therapy site
- My dad's canal boating site
- My wife's blog (retired)
- Our blog about our daughters (retired)
Pages from the old FICTION on the WEB site (archived)
- Poems
- Drabbles
- King of Games
- Livewire
- Number Puzzles
- Books that have changed my life
- How this site looked in the 1990s
Some of my favourite short stories (external links)
- The £1,000,000 Bank-Note by Mark Twain
- 17776 (What football will look like in the future) by Jon Bois
- 2 B R 0 2 B by Kurt Vonnegut
- The Adventure of a Bather by Italo Calvino
- The Birdcage Heart by Peter M Ball
- Blue Tigers by Jorge Luis Borges
- The Brass Teapot by Tim Macy
- The Call of Cthulhu by H P Lovecraft
- The Cold Equations by Tom Godwin
- The Cheater's Guide to Love by Junot DÃaz
- The Country of the Blind by H G Wells
- The Destructors by Graham Greene
- Eating Van Gogh by Mark Simon Burk
- Faith and Hope Go Shopping by Joanne Harris
- The Gift of the Magi by O Henry
- The Index by J G Ballard
- India World by Amit Gupta
- A Lifestyle by Fernando Sorrentino
- The Lottery by Shirley Jackson
- A Modest Proposal by Jonathan Swift
- The Necklace by Guy de Maupassant
- The Nine Billion Names of God by Arthur C Clarke
- The Perfect Fit by Hall Jameson
- Samphire by Patrick O'Brian
- Spar by by Kij Johnson
- Stone by Matthew Kneale
- The Lady or the Tiger? by Frank Stockton
- They're Made Out of Meat by Terry Bisson
- Twenty-six Men and a Girl by Maxim Gorky
- Understand by Ted Chiang
Some of my favourite poems (external links)
- Do not go gentle into that good night by Dylan Thomas
- Eurydice by Sue Hubbard
- Funeral Blues by W H Auden
- If— by Rudyard Kipling
- I Remember I Was A Point, I Was A Circle by Houda Al-Naamani
- Jabberwocky by Lewis Carroll
- Ode by Arthur O'Shaughnessy
- The Raven by Edgar Allan Poe
- Revenge by Elisa Chavez
- Simeon's Parties by Lucy Courtenay
- Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening by Robert Frost
- That Love is all there is by Emily Dickinson
- This Be The Verse by Philip Larkin
- The Tyger by William Blake
- A Visit from Saint Nicholas by Clement Clark Moore (attributed)
- When I see young women, I see our glow by Amanda Gorman
- The Zero Point Field by Simon Welsh
Some of my favourite pre-millennial video games
- Bubble Bobble (and Puzzle Bobble)
- Commander Keen series
- Doom
- Duke Nukem 3D
- The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
- Kurtan
- Lemmings series
- Pac-Man
- Popcorn
- Quest series by Sierra On-Line (King's, Police & Space)
- Sim City 2000
- Super Mario Bros series
- Super Mario Kart
- Tetris
- Worms
Some of my favourite theatre experiences
- Brief Encounter (Kneehigh)
- Hamilton (Victoria Palace Theatre)
- The Masque of the Red Death (Punchdrunk at Battersea Arts Centre)
- My Neighbor Totoro (RSC at Barbican Theatre)
- The Smile Off Your Face (Ontroerend Goed)
- Avenue Q (Noël Coward Theatre)
- Derren Brown: Underground (Playhouse Theatre)
- James and the Giant Peach (Polka Theatre)
- Matilda the Musical (Cambridge Theatre)
- Prima Facie (National Theatre)
- Don John (Kneehigh at Battersea Arts Centre)
- ENRON (Noël Coward Theatre)
- Groundhog Day (The Old Vic)
- Popcorn (The University of Birmingham Guild of Students)
- Tristan & Yseult (Kneehigh at Shakespeare's Globe)
- Acting in my local theatre company as a teenager
- Cinderella with BSL interpretation (Brixton House)
- Holding Fire! (Shakespeare's Globe)
- The Importance of Being Earnest
- Jersey Boys (Piccadilly Theatre)
- Harry Potter and the Cursed Child (Palace Theatre)
- Lights Off (The University of Birmingham Guild of Students)
- The Play That Goes Wrong (Duchess Theatre)
- Stomp
- The Woman in Black (Fortune Theatre)