My Principal Motivation Is Supporting My Family,

I Do Tend To Look Back To My Parents Generation And Think Wow! What A Great Way To Be, To Live With One Person For A Lifetime, To Bring Your Kids Up In These Really Solid Families.

Largely This Is A Class Thing - Writers Tend To Be Cosseted Little Middle-class Kiddies Who Think That The World Owes Them A Royalty Cheque. But Just Doing It - Being In Your Room For Years On End, Locked In Your Head, Alone With Invented Ghosts - It Weakens And Softens The Body. And I Know I Can't Just Live In My Head.

It Can't Always Be A Honeymoon

I Am All For Cracking Down On Inappropriate Digital Behaviour. Too Often The Connected World Is An Excuse For Some Coward Hiding Behind A Keyboard To Bully Someone Else.

I've Been Visiting Thailand For More Than 20 Years But Didn't Fall In Love With It Until I Visited Phuket Town In Phuket. The Northern Part Of Phuket Is One Of The Most Fascinating Places I've Ever Been, And Largely Unspoilt And Unknown.