jo clement | writer

Recently at the 'Darwin: Big Idea' exhibition I was faced with some other dinosaurs. Draped in black fabrics, the setting was as dour and...

So much of the appeal of dinosaurs is their scale. Walking through the Lake District recently, I was taken with the prehistoric shape of...

Nothing like the cold of the morning to wake you up. Or a coffee. Richard recently told me that as a budding writer, coffee should be my...

If you are ever in Manchester you must go to the city gallery. Not only does it house my favourite portrait of Sappho, there are some...

In some parallel universe, I date a creative type. The guy reads Chekov's Three Sisters to me. We drink vodka from the bottle and he...

..they worked terribly hard to steal all this stuff themselves.

cats eye specs, a pristine green Adidas tracksuit top, a stuffed otter complete with glistening faux river, a top hat

it is strange to associate the grit and grip of tyres with 'fine dining', champagne and linen napkins

get the book from the front room, fill a flask, make a peanut butter sandwich and steal the binoculars

I don't know where the sun beams end / and the starlights begin / it's all a mystery