David Palin

The pleasure of baking sourdough and and how it compares to the pleasure of writing.

Thoughts on Remembrance Sunday and a poem.

On air on Marlow FM with Mary Flavelle and cartoonist Geoff Motley.

This is something I mentioned on Facebook the other day, but I thought it was worth blogging about too. There is so much bad press about...

So, the time is upon us again when we remember and honour the lives lost in war. In the midst of this, I believe there should be an...

…but unlike Parliament, does the nose have it too? Or the mouth, for that matter? Okay, what I’m really asking here is whether the...

Pre-COVID I ran a book club. Hopefully we will soon all meet again. We tried Zoom and soon realized it was a waste of time. Anyone who...

Well, why do we say hello? More than ever in these times of long, solitary walks, the greeting to a relative stranger is perhaps an...