A toehold in February

February 2019 won’t rank highly on my list of favourite months – all a bit hectic in various ways.  Apo...

Distracted by sunshine

Apparently today’s sudden burst of sunshine presages a heatwave, and it was certainly enough to keep me from putting u...

Start of the year

Here in New Zealand we are in the throes of summer, and even days where the forecast has been rather threatening in term...

Superstitions

It’s the time of the year when people take on resolutions about changing behaviour, so it’s not inappropriate to con...

Merry Christmas

Looking for something different for the BBC Music Magazine Christmas issue, I found myself doodling a Christmas tree sha...

The approach of Christmas

Some Christmas puzzles are already appearing, so this week I am putting up one of my own – an Independent daily fr...

The start of summer

In the Southern Hemisphere at least.  Radio NZ Concert obligingly played Vivaldi’s seasonal concerto yesterda...

A busy week

It’s not often I have to rearrange things to fit in the crosswording, but this has been a busy week, with the resu...

10,000

The 10,000th Independent puzzle appeared this week, on 31 October, and I was very pleased to have been asked to produce ...

The perils of the post

Having spent some time typing up a BBC Music Magazine puzzle, I discover it’s one I already have up on the site, w...