Giving up on drinking alcohol has turned out to be ridiculously easy. The added bonus is that I seem to have dreams every single night. I don't remember any of the dreams, but I know that I had them ( Read more... )

Most weeks I spend at least one night away. I book a B&B through laterooms trying to pick something cheap and unusual. There have been some fantastic successes and a few miserable nights half built dumps. I will carry on doing it, because event the dumps have been entertaining and even educational ( Read more... )

 I now have to sort things out one at a time, and get them exactly right ( Read more... )

 I am very tired and have had too many glasses of wine. I should not try to write.

I picked a hotel on "Laterooms" and look what turned up.


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I am getting deadly serious about money, work and "Quality of Life" Vs "Standard of Living ( Read more... )

"As every individual, therefore, endeavours as much as he can both to employ his capital in the support of domestick industry, and so to direct that industry that its produce may be of the greatest value; every individual necessarily labours to render the annual revenue of the society as great as he can." Adam Smith. The Wealth of Nations ( Read more... )

 How incongruous is the following news flash?

"Yahoo! Finance reports Japan quake-tsunami death toll likely over 10,000."

Every so often I get the sense that there is another world, and if i were to try, i cold just about see into it. Years and years ago I would listen to a squeaky C90 cassette playing "Man who sold the world" thinking "It's just there - I can nearly touch it."

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For years I read science fiction. Probably trying to get that same sensation. The one ( Read more... )

 But on another note. I looked at somebody's photo.......

There is something exactly right about attic windows and sloping walls. Vertical walls and regular windows don't  touch the soul. A haven needs five sides as well as two ends.

God knows why.