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Bye bye baby, baby goodbye 1 Dec 2010 | 09:16 am
It is a horribly familiar situation. Waiting for a response from the other person. Desperate for them to say they are thinking the same thing and I am not wrong in clinging to that last piece of hope...
October and us 27 Oct 2010 | 10:11 am
This time of year reminds me of you. It reminds me of what we had in another October. You are the frosty mornings and high blue skies, the musty earthy smell of wet leaves and mushrooms. The warmth ...
Tales from Gin Alley 26 Aug 2010 | 10:54 pm
“Can you drink gin all evening? I find it makes me really maudlin.” Prophetic words from my drinking companion! Unfortunately he should have mentioned this before I started drinking gin rather than w...
Rural isolation 3 Aug 2010 | 09:19 am
I am sitting in an empty cottage listening to the silence that pools in the small rooms and hidden niches. Outside the village is darkening quickly. Occasionally you can hear laughter from the pub, b...
A question of x and y 1 Aug 2010 | 04:05 am
Never let it be said that I have left any situation under-analysed. I would make a great theoretical physicist, if only my talent for science extended beyond leaving the top off the ether bottle and ...
Roses, romance and cricket 27 Jul 2010 | 10:53 am
In a reflective mood on the train home tonight, I spent some time dreaming of days bunked off school to go and watch cricket. Fortunately I walked to school, straight past the train station and with ...
Excuse me, but are you..? 12 Jul 2010 | 10:03 am
Last night on the train, I found myself facing a man who looked suspiciously like the actor, William Houston. A quite distinctive looking man. Despite having two books and a notepad for writing ideas ...
Why did I do what I did? 11 Jul 2010 | 11:51 am
Looking back, after the alcohol, hangover and general atmosphere of the evening had worn off, I began to question why I did what I did. It could have been any number of things, really and I have spen...
Daleks, Edith Piaf and my parents 5 Jul 2010 | 09:40 am
I love my parents deeply, but my relationship with them can be summed up in two conversations held this afternoon: My Mother “Hi Mum, how are you? Please may I borrow the Victorian coral and diamond...
Ms Cool regrets she is unable to attend 30 Jun 2010 | 09:17 am
It is hard to be calm and graceful when you are faced with a hero. It’s doubly hard to be cool and elegant when that hero is the man whose presence is so magnetic that you cannot actually string a se...
