Saturday was Lisa’s promised shopping trip as part of her 16th birthday present, with a small coterie of her friends. I’d undertaken to do a bit of remote control chaperoning. Keen late September sunshine. I really should be back at school. Unbroken blue sky. Wyclef Jean and his comment on UK weather. The approach to [...]
I’ve never been that good at sleeping. Last night I did manage something like a normal night’s sleep (for me, anyway) – and it’s made me realise that’s it’s pretty much the key to everything. You can get so much more done and think much more easily. David Blaine on the radio sounds like has [...]
I’ve always envied musical talent. Even made a semi-serious attempt once to acquire some competence – to the extent that I could probably still pluck the first few chords of “House Of The Rising Sun” even now. But it’s like training parrots to speak: they don’t actually know what they’re doing. Just to be lost [...]
12:10 w/n Thus far in life I’ve mostly failed to put in enough groundwork before jumping to the main event. The simple explanation is laziness I suppose. But explaining everything according to an outdated Protestant work ethic is very far from helpful. It simply is the case that if you don’t lay the groundwork you [...]