A website is like a mantelpiece. You can use it to display select pieces – perhaps a vase, special photographs, one or two ornaments that are attractive or mean a lot. But, at the same time, it is also a convenient shelf on which to dump stuff – a bunch of keys, a letter that needs a response, odds and ends.

I tend towards the former. I like things arranged. I appreciate balance and proportion and can find myself tweaking the angle at which an ornament sits on the mantelpiece or experimenting with the distance between a number of objects. It’s daft really. But that deep-rooted desire to arrange points to a thread running through much of my writing. It is the quest for patterns; for patterns hint at order and with order comes understanding.

I hope this website offers a suitable balance: featuring my major pieces of writing as well as those miscellaneous items which might develop into something more focussed or may just sit there, mildly interesting, for a while.

Thank you for taking the time to dip into what’s here. I appreciate it.

David