Further to the Christmas sprout, it’s whale water time! On the back of the saga of the Thames whale, I note on ebay some new items offered. One is the genuine watering can used to keep the famous cetacean hydrated in its last hours on the planet. Another is a jar of...
Busy week, let’s see – highlight: finishing Slow Man by J M Coetzee. Now, I know I rave about this guy and it’s easy – he is a Nobel prize winner after all – but I just love his style. Someone once said about Beethoven that every note seems to be the right one, the...
It’s Sunday evening. I’ve just listed some stuff on ebay to sell – old videos, Playstation games, that sort of thing. I see it as a form of recycling; and while I don’t expect to make too much money from it, it’s nice to think that stuff lying around for years in...
It has been an uneventful start to the New Year; after a leisurely morning we go to Pizza Hut for lunch. The children manage to eat more than we do! Then we wander around the few shops that are open in Bury, as if we haven’t had enough of shopping. Other dazed...
Sunday: 10k run (that’s 6.2 miles in English), hot (27 C) 11.00am start Framlingham Castle, Suffolk, England. I haven’t done much running over the summer, concentrating on the bike instead. I’m quite fit (in one sense), but this was an ordeal too...
Not that I had one, but the break is over. I have discovered Coetzee, courtesy of fellow members of my writers’ group, sent off some poems to a regional competition, decided to put in the hard work necessary to fuel a ‘career’ in writing and not...
