November 14, 2007
a rose bush in the desert…
This job, for all its rich social contact, is beginning to curdle my brain. To be fair I could be earning my sterlings in more strenuous and decidedly…
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November 14, 2007
This job, for all its rich social contact, is beginning to curdle my brain. To be fair I could be earning my sterlings in more strenuous and decidedly…
November 14, 2007
Sainsbury’s, at 2pm on a Wednesday afternoon, is not the Right kind of scene for drunk and disorderly townie hags, yet here they are, hooting and whooping, cackling…
November 8, 2007
The decision to give up the rollies two days before the stag-do was a poor one. Yes I managed to go almost 48 hours without any nicotine but…
November 8, 2007
Recent studies undertaken by respected plant whisperers have shown the importance of family ties in the green world. Two cuttings taken from one planet were re-housed in a…
November 8, 2007
I first took a pop at this book back in April of this year but after consuming the first fifty pages I had to stop. Not because the…
October 5, 2007
I have various ideas about the DreamWorld. All of which, if put together, would make this ‘note’ a novel. Fortunately there are two ideas in particular that I…
October 5, 2007
I was wrapping a piece of halibut steak, rapidly but with practiced efficiency, when the power to the Store was suddenly cut. As there are only windows at…
October 2, 2007
True beauty can be found in abundance in Nature. A statement which is validated whenever I find myself staring with amazement at the intricacy and strength of a…
September 27, 2007
What can I see??? A curvaceous, bull-faced wench with a tattooed breast…A glum baby with a frog’s mouth, her countenance dull, almost morose, but what can be expected??…
September 27, 2007
The view from the garden here is phenomenal. No clouds, just unfathomable blackness and hundreds of stars, many of which seem to be arranged in very clear patterns.…