The Discipline Of The Twit is just that. If you’re going to say something inside a limit of 140 characters, with syntax and resonance and everything, it is a discipline and you are a twit if you do it to the detriment of reality. But then life isn’t like that anymore. Perhaps it never was. [...]
Has come round remarkably quickly. Time has that habit of passing, regardless of what people do. The trick is to fill it with valuable stuff. Speaking of which, I opened a Twitter account just over a week ago. Couldn’t ignore it any longer. I guess the idea of it is that it provides carefully selected [...]
Symbolically burning all that was worthless and all the vanities that were dragging me down. I guess it grew in my mind over the last week or so, having seen in B & Q those galvanised incinerators that I remember from the garden at Broad Oak Lane. For quite a few years running when the [...]
It would be fair to say that it’s been less than clear how you can leave comments on this blog. The main problem has been filtering out spam, but hopefully I’ve got that pretty much sorted now. So if you want to leave a comment on a post just click on comments at the side [...]
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 [...]