Digging Out

I'm a great believer in fallow time. We creative types need it, and if we try to go too long without letting our fields have a rest, well, anything that grows tends to be thin and feeble and weak. I think that's the stage I was at just after Christmas – brittle, hollow, worn to the nub. So, I gave myself a gift: fallow time.

Fallow time for me has been about getting lots of exercising, re-dedicating myself to my yoga practice (isn't it funny how you can know something's good for you and know...