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. And then, lo! A book appeared, or is in the process of appearing. A book about lawns: our obsession with lawns, a cultural history of lawns, a memoir of my father’s lawn. It will be coming soon, and I hope it will answer all your questions about Lawns.

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.