Mick Canning's Blog
November 29, 2025
Seville 1 – A Bit Random
We loved Seville. In every respect, it is Andalucia at its finest. For this first post I’m going to put up rather a mixture of photos. I will post some more later, in a rather more ordered way. But this is just a flavour. This year’s trip was the first time I’d been to Spain …
November 23, 2025
‘Information’ Overload
I’ve had this post in mind for a while without actually getting around to writing any of it. But I felt it would fit in well here, following on from my last post. We are supposedly better informed today than we were twenty, fifty, a hundred years ago. I’m not sure I agree, though. Certainly, …
November 17, 2025
A Justification of Theft
Clickbait? Perhaps, but I have a point to make. There is a blog I follow which regularly posts about good people. People who make a difference to their world. Kindness. They change lives. And it makes for a refreshing read in a world which often appears to be so full of shit we could be …
November 14, 2025
An Andalusian Adventure (2) – reblog
It was a long way to Colmenar. I was walking up into the Malaga Mountains, with no map and no directions other than a road sign at the edge of Malaga suggesting that by following this road I would eventually reach my destination. I suspect I have undertaken other journeys where I have been better …
November 10, 2025
An Andalusian Adventure (1) – Re-blog
It is certainly much harder to learn a foreign language when you get older. Since we’d like to do some more European travel (in my case, especially Spain) I’ve been trying to polish up my Spanish, but seem to be making very slow progress. But I said I would re-blog the occasional post so here’s …
November 6, 2025
6th November 2025
When I began this blog, some ten years ago, it was for the express purpose of both promoting my writing and discussing writing in general. Since then, although I have certainly used it for that purpose, promoting my books and zines, posting the occasional poem, writing the occasional review of other books, and posting discussion …
October 28, 2025
Writing Update
I haven’t done one of these for a long time. For anyone wondering what has happened to my novel in progress, it’s finished. Hurrah! I know there were two earlier versions which got discarded as soon as I had finished them, but I’m really pleased with this one – it’s the book I had visualised …
September 11, 2025
Cordoba
We were in Cordoba in April. And we naturally visited the Mezquita (Spanish for mosque), a mosque repurposed as a cathedral in the sixteenth century. In this post, I’m focussing on the Islamic architecture – the parts that really interested me. Regrettably, we had both been ill since before we left The UK and I …
September 8, 2025
A Change Is As Good As A Rest
The last couple of weeks have seen a real mix of weather – typically autumnal. At times it’s been absolutely hammering it down here. After what feels like an impossibly long spell of parched heat, in the last week we’ve had some marvellous rainstorms. These rains have freshened the tired summer greens as though they’ve …
August 3, 2025
‘Likes’ Update
Well, I tried clearing the cache on the browser, and it made no difference. But I tried opening posts from my phone, and that worked. Help suggested that might mean it’s the browser at fault, so I might change my browser at some point. So for those of you having similar problems, my browser is …
