A rough night

You know how you feel when you wake up after a night on the tiles and getting home at 3am and crawling into bed and watching the room spin slowly out of control till you pass out? That’s me, today, without the fun of the night on the tiles. I went to bed at a [...]

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No Worst, yet

    No worst, there is none. Pitched past pitch of grief, More pangs will, schooled at forepangs, wilder wring. Comforter, where, where is your comforting? Mary, mother of us, where is your relief? My cries heave, herds-long; huddle in a main, a chief Woe, world-sorrow; on an age-old anvil wince and sing— Then lull, [...]

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Reboot

It’s barely a quarter to eleven in the morning here and I have decided the best thing I can do today is go back to bed. There are days when I wake and wish I hadn’t, wish I could just sleep the day away, wish the heavy feeling inside was just a cat sitting on [...]

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Pavlov’s Cat

  Some twenty years or more ago, my brother came to visit us for a long weekend and he brought with him a few presents and his own agenda. When he presented us with a gift for our first wedding anninversary, I ought to have been suspicious but being the polite soul I am, when [...]

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Perfect Timing

You know those days when nothing goes according to plan; you miss the bus by ten seconds, you fail to see your friend in a crowded Starbucks, you lose a tenner when the wind catches it and blows it away? Those days when everything goes wrong? Had it ever occurred to you that there are [...]

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Pied Piper of Hamelin(alternative version)

  To understand the following, you need to click the link below. I highly recommend this blog anyway! http://shafali.wordpress.com/2010/04/23/story-writing-contest-competition-tell-the-story-in-the-caricature-the-man-and-the-rat/ The real nature of the true Pied Piper of Hamelin was revealed by the final trick of  the piper when the mayor refused to pay him what he was owed. Stealing children was far from his only crime, however, [...]

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Black Flies…

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AyRshnwExPU&feature=player_embedded#!

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An interview

My dear friend J posted this interview this morning.  http://controlyourdestiny.wordpress.com/2010/04/21/conversation-with-a-friend-and-a-truly-wonderful-writer/ I find talking about myself hard in abstract and so an interview like this that focusses on certain questions was much easier to deal with. After all, when someone says “Tell me about yourself?” what can you say and where do you start? Thanks J. [...]

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How I was almost thrown out of the British Museum…

I’ve had a couple of people ask me about that throwaway sentence about being almost thrown out three times on one afternoon, so it has clearly piqued curiosity a little. Here’s the story: Back in pre-history, in the 80′s I had a good friend who I met on my Cambridge interview and we kept in [...]

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Mummy

  Mummy. He looks enough like my father To make me feel very guilty For standing gawping open-mouthed At the shrunken leather features, The hands folded neatly as if in prayer, And the feet poking pathetically From the unravelling linen. I like to look but I hate myself For enjoying it so much. Empty eye [...]

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