Welcome to Doctor Waffle!

On planet Earth in the Common Era year 2020 a global pandemic began—and thence it was a few short steps to the birth of Doctor Waffle. During lockdown I decided to launch a new daily writing discipline, so asked a bunch of friends to suggest essay topics—tea, socks, uncles, literacy—and promised to churn out one mini-essay a week for an entire year. It more or less went according to plan (you can read the grand sum-up of the project here), but then I was hooked and couldn’t stop writing. More essays have continued to belch forth, at an erratic pace and of uneven quality. Sometimes they are reminiscences, sometimes they are reviews, sometimes they reflect on nineteenth-century novels. They are all (trying to be) funny. I have affection for them all. I hope you enjoy.

Warning

Doctor Waffle is not a real doctor and all advice plumbed from tragicomic childhood anecdotes and the nineteenth-century novel is strictly for entertainment purposes.