FROM THE HAMMOCK
Series about being one - How we think, feel, behave, connect and become who we are.
Wonderment
Longer reads that stay with an idea, a memory or a human question for a bit longer.
The Millionaire Versions of Me
I have a number in my head: £7.5 million. I’ve spent it countless times on houses, travel, family, friends and ideas. But the more imaginary...
Death Sticks
A stick of Nag Champa, a quiet house and the strange way one smell can carry whole versions of your life inside it.
Waiting for Daddy
Every afternoon, long before Daddy’s car appears, Bob walks to the garden gate and waits. Nobody tells him to. Somehow, he just knows. I’ve often...
What My Business Is Asking Of Me
I started Wonderment hoping to build something that gave me more life, not less. But sitting down to create an Instagram account made me wonder:...
Small Wonders
Short observations from ordinary life - the moments, details and thought that are easy to straight past.
The First Kiss
My first kiss was truly magical. We were both quite obviously terrified. His name was John Kelly. We were in the same form at high...
Nothing in My Head at All
It's 10.52pm, and I'm lying in the hammock in the back garden. A towel's still hanging above me on the washing line, forgotten. It's quiet....
Regulated
This morning began slowly. I was in the hammock. My youngest daughter climbed in beside me for a while before wandering off to play. One...
The Soundtrack Home
Roadworks forced me onto a different route — three unexpected miles. Sometimes a detour is a gift disguised as an inconvenience. Amazon Music had quietly...
All About From the Hammock
All About From the Hammock
From the Hammock is where ordinary life gets a little more room.
These are stories and thoughts that begin with the things we notice while simply living — a drive home, something overheard, an unexpected thought, a quiet garden, a familiar routine or a moment that would normally disappear without much ceremony.
Some become longer reflections. Others remain small observations. They don’t need a grand subject or dramatic event to earn attention.
The hammock itself is partly real and partly an idea: a place where there is enough space to stop doing for a moment and notice what the mind wanders towards.
From the Hammock is for the thoughts that might never have appeared if life hadn’t gone quiet enough to hear them.