Just for fun! — Sandra Jasionowska and Linda Ng kindly tagged me in their recent articles listing ten things people might not know about them. (Here are links to Sandra’s and Linda’s articles.) After struggling to get started, I ended up with 12 items which I trimmed down to ten. …

A factual look at the steps I went through (ADOS-2 and ADI-R) — In this article, I share my experience of the NHS autism assessment process for adults in the United Kingdom, which I went through a few years ago when I was 48 years old. I focus on the process itself, from initial thoughts, right through to receiving the final report. Details…

Being careful while travelling, without becoming paranoid — This article was inspired by: Stop Losing Things While Travelling Once And For All — by Linda Ng I Got Robbed in Italy — by Sandra Jasionowska These days, I’m almost obsessive when it comes to checking that I still have everything with me while I’m out and about. …

Hopefully, this is the first of many improvements — Yesterday, I received an email from Medium, and I’m glad I read it. It said the latest iOS mobile app now supports audio. That means iPhone users can now listen to stories. I updated my phone right away, and it looks like a useful addition. Included features: over 20 voices…

Can you guess what it was? — This is part of a series about my old workplace. I spent 20 years there, after leaving college in the 80s Writing Summer in the Cellar has unlocked a few more memories of things that happened down in the cellar. This is a short story about one of them. John…

Promise me that you will not read them… — For your entertainment… I’ve had a look through my statistics and found some of my worst-performing stories. This is what I should do: analyse them improve the titles, keywords and SEO settings rewrite some or all of them Perhaps I will at some point. But for now, I plan to…

Looking back at an unusual and sometimes unpleasant time; plus a small confession — This is part of a series about my old workplace. I spent 20 years there, after leaving college in the 80s “The smell lasted for months.” When I first started working for John, he was only just setting up the electronics side of his business. …