Why does #thewhitelotus have deadly trees next to the meditation centre?

Crawling through the day so I have enough beans for tonight’s Edinburgh launch of Jen Dunn and Allan Gaw’s new books at the Diggers the neyt! I do hope you can come along

It was #venice’s 1604th birthday tomorrow; I’ll be a little late to the party, but a couple of weeks from now, I’ll be back at Il Santo Bevitore to toast her long reign of wonder

I’m running the next Alcove night in Leith on Friday; there’s a massive collection of brilliant poets, musicians and storytellers coming along, and we’re raising money to help the response to the attacks on Lebanon in recent weeks. If you’ve got a few quid, come down and have a knees up!

I’ll start with an obligatory kitty picture-he likes my book ;)

Very excited to get stuck in to this app; I can’t wait to connect with creatives and see lots of pictures of cats and trees!