I set up an internet magazine "FROM THE WINDOW" in July 1997 and try to publish 4 editions per annum. It is primarily a vehicle for good experiential writing. I invite contributions from all manner of people - the significant and famous, the ordinary and everyday. I have tried contacting schools in a dozen or more countries to enlist young journalists in my project, as I am particularly interested in collecting oral histories from people who have witnessed cultural changes that can otherwise seem remote from us eg experience of war or grinding poverty. I have been disappointed with the lack of enthusiastic response from children although staff within the schools have invariably been supportive and encouraging. It may be that my magazine is too esoteric and dull for teenagers who are used to fizzy colours and fast soundbites but I am not wanting to give up on the solidity of considered prose and the centrality of the word. The response from eminent writers has been most encouraging (see cv ) and my friends and acquaintances are now quite used to my clamouring for articles and contacts. It is wonderful fun spreading my tentacles out from home and building a little edifice of solid gain. I would like to ensure a more regular readership than publishing quarterly yields and therefore I am pretentiously jumping into the role of public diarist. It remains to be seen whether I can maintain this pace in terms of both writing and publishing times allotted daily and whether the ploy ruses with a fair wind....