W’ello, small echoing chamber. What now, eh? Wondrous storm all night, playing the house like an accordion, pushing jets of water under doors, down chimneys. Well uhuh, a heyhey, aheyoh I’m all shook up. Not enough though. Still marooned on the surface of tarmac’d days. Begone, apostrophe fairy ( Read more... )

Well I seem still to be about as wordless as a hot air balloon or a thing which lurks in the undergrowth. I have been up since 5 on this particular day, flung out on the sofa with a blanket over me, looking at design blogs. When you read "this picture shows some of my apron and tea towel collection" you know to move on. So I moved on and found ( Read more... )

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What to do in a time of crisis? Turn to wholesome makeycrafty diversions, natch. When your father appears to be dying on the other side of the planet, when your career has foundered on the rocks of impossibility, when your (kink) relationship goes belly-up, when you're so sleep-deprived your hands shake, then out with the scissors and away with ( Read more... )

I walked into the book store today and saw the first novel by someone in my old writing group. It was a shock, even though I knew her launch was at Glee recently. I was pleased for her, annoyed with myself ( Read more... )

Overtired and unable to get myself to bed last night, I instead decided to google my ex-lovers. Some were below the google radar (and so, thank god, am I). One is now Professor of Music at an american university. No surprise there. Another is lecturing in a London university. Yet another is senior lecturer at Cambridge. I remember him reading ' ( Read more... )

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there's an all-day event just down the road at the cricket oval, at which they have amplification of voice and music. there was one all yesterday. it's as well I don't have bullet-firing equipment or a power hose.

see, the neighbour on the downside, the one who hoovers her dogs' kennels and changes their sheets daily - I always knew she was crazy. that, as they say in another country, is a no-brainer. but when the other neighbour, the one on the upside, the one you thought was moderately sane - when they open their front door and hoover the steps, what are ( Read more... )