21st October 2011
It takes two to tango. I recently had a phone call from an old friend (we shall call her X) who clearly had something on her mind. After the initial hellos and how-the-hell-are-yous she very quickly moved on to the real reason why she’d called me. She wanted to issue a very formal and very vociferous complaint about her best…
15th October 2011
Grimalkin: king of all he surveys, and my personal overlord (I don’t even try to deny it any more).
14th October 2011
The clock sounds unnaturally loud in this quiet room. I put the radio on for company this morning, but it didn’t work. It works most mornings, but it didn’t work today. It’s been one of those days. You know them, I’m sure. I’ve drifted around, too restless to settle, too distracted to work, too consumed by everything that’s gone before…
14th October 2011
Is it just me or have my posse and I been lurching from crisis to crisis lately? Don’t get me wrong; I love being there to pick my buddies up and dust them off (figuratively, of course; we never talk about that time when it was literal), and I love knowing they’re there to perform the same service for me…
13th October 2011
So, apparently I’m blogging again. My old blog died a natural and much-needed death caused by neglect, and I for one am quite happy to let it. I think old blogs are like inconvenient time capsules; you read them years later and think to yourself, ‘Oh my god, was I really that angry/silly/stupid/naive?’ And the answer to that question is,…