BLOG

My therapist gave me this mantra: “I give myself permission to put myself first” – and I’ve been rotating around it for a couple of weeks...

It’s been a while since I’ve written in here about ayahuasca. This is partly because the work I’ve been doing there, in Brazil, has been...

Just back from Holy Island. What a fantastic course this year. After everything that has happened to me this year – not least my...

If you let go a little, you suffer a little less. If you let go a lot, then you suffer a lot less. If you let go completely, all...

I went to see Amma last night. After a relentless few weeks of filming, teaching, studenting, I really wanted to curl up under the duvet...

Just in case you don’t have 20 minutes to listen to Prof. Dougan’s talk here are the main points (and yes, Dougan is the Jean Monnet...

Preparing lunch for Rachel I was suddenly struck by the infinitesimal beauty of mushrooms. Which I then had to photograph all over the...

Imagine a train-track figure made of sliver over sliver of between-car vision, each slice too brief to add detail or deepen: that...

I love Stravinsky. I love Auden (in patches). I love the theatre of Robert LePage and I love the music of Tom Adès, and indeed Tom Adès...

Treena arguing with Dominic, who’s just said that being gay is perhaps not normal: “Being normal is what men have created in order to not...

BEATUS BENIDORM Went walking in the mountains above Alicante with Simon over Easter. Acres of almond blossom. Good sinew-hardening...

Had Mum and Dad up to stay and we all went to see In The Shadow of the Moon this afternoon. About 5 weeks ago when we were travelling in...

This must have been during the first summer of filming on series One of ‘Cash in the Attic’. It was a magical shoot with a wonderful team...

I’ve been up in Cumbria at the same time as the terrible Bird killings, but happily I was more safely engaged filming for Escape. We were...

This trip to Brazil was significant on a number of scores. It was the first time that we had run a session on the completed Land: an old...