Author Archives: James Hannah

Varför svenska?

About a year ago, a man named Andrew said to me, ‘You just like to be dif­fer­ent, don’t you?’ He said it because I’d men­tioned that I was about to go on a bread­mak­ing course, to learn how to make sour­dough bread. I hate all other forms of cook­ing, by the way, because I’m rub­bish at it. I just wanted to at …

April 12, 2011 – 1:05 am | By James Hannah | Posted in Biographical | Tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , | Comments (0)

Influential words 2

So, I was think­ing about the small, unso­licited and unin­tended words of inspi­ra­tion that peo­ple have gifted me. See pre­vi­ous let­ter. Teach­ers, much like par­ents, are in the fir­ing line for every­thing. Any tiny inflec­tion or mis­placed com­ment might stay with a child, and fes­ter away for a life­time to come. In 1990, my Maths teacher read out the results …

July 18, 2010 – 10:25 pm | By James Hannah | Posted in Biographical | Tagged , | Comments (0)

Influential words 1

You can go out pur­posely look­ing for inspi­ra­tion, and you can go out pur­posely look­ing to inspire peo­ple. But it occurred to me yes­ter­day that many of the most sig­nif­i­cant inspi­ra­tions I’ve had have hap­pened quite unex­pect­edly, unso­licited and unin­tended. I was at a book launch – the sort of event where the atten­dees don’t know …

July 14, 2010 – 10:16 pm | By James Hannah | Posted in Biographical | Tagged , | Comments (0)