On Sunday Mel and I went along to the Whitworth Art Gallery to take in ( Read more... )

Doesn't Eddie look like he is joining in the conversation, offering some helpful morsel of advice, or contributing an anecdote?
What a guy.

On Thursday the name Arthur Negus suddenly came to me. It has been much ( Read more... )

I hate it when i have lots of things needing attention and my mind just sinks into torpor at the thought of filling in forms. I wish I had the luxury of not working full-time. I was in on Sunday and i've been in work today as well, on the bank holiday. May day has certainly been a worker's holiday. There has been Vic around both days for company at ( Read more... )

It's been a while since I had anything approaching a hangover. I had forgotten that it makes me totally vacant all day. Mel is having to wait for a reply to anything she says while my brain whirrs and clicks. Come to think of it, this entry is having to wait while I process the necessary information.

My mother is getting rid of a lot of her ( Read more... )

Today I found out that my application to study for a masters in philosophy has been accepted.
Time to round up all the ideas I had in my head over the last few months on the subject, since the department tutors want to meet up at some point in the near future.
This Lautreamont novel turns out to be the third book in a row that I've read with child ( Read more... )

What a welcome warm day. Seems like real warm spring days are finally here. There were people in the park opposite who had brought hammocks to string up in the trees. Personally I didn't get to laze about in it, as I was out in Wythenshawe canvassing for the candidate there. Quite a lot of support for and anti-cuts and closures candidate prepared ( Read more... )

Today I finished Against Nature by Huysmans. There is a postscript written after he became catholic. What a hypocrite. Lately it has occurred to me that although the book is obscene from the point of view of its decadence, the fact that it is a work of fiction and written in different times and concerns a member of a social class which no longer ( Read more... )