A modern car comes with an extraordinary amount of information. I discovered exactly how much when Adele recently bought her new Toyota Yaris Hybrid. The owner's manual is 507 pages. The navigation manual adds another 281. There's a 100-page multimedia guide and a further 14 pages of specifications for the car. That's 902 pages altogether. Somewhere amongst those 902 pages is probably the answer to almost any question we might have about the car. Finding it is another matter. And that...

One of the things I've discovered about retirement is that having more control over your time doesn't necessarily mean you get to spend that time doing what you planned. Over the past few weeks, I've had a fairly simple list of things I wanted to get done. Finish sorting out my photography studio. Get back to taking photographs. Do some writing. Spend time in the garden. Generally get back to some of the things retirement was supposed to give me more time for. It hasn't quite worked out like...

I went to Yorkshire Sculpture Park recently and spent about three hours taking photographs. I have no idea whether any of them are particularly good. "Strangely, that might be the best thing about the whole afternoon." Photography has been part of my life for years, but it's very easy for something you enjoy to acquire expectations. You start thinking about whether an image is technically good enough. Is the composition right? Is the light interesting? Would I put it on the website? Would I...