It’s been a beautiful day here in Cornwall but to say today has gone well would be a fucking lie. On the first day of sunshine in ages I figure I’ll go for a bracing sea cliff walk and a dip in the sea before starting work. I should have known something was not right […]

I used to be addicted to brackets. They were my way of throwing in little asides (like this) without interrupting the flow of the sentence. But I have stowed by stash of brackets at the back of my writer’s tool box and taken up with the – far superior – dash. I am not sure […]

This morning just before I woke up I asked K what time he needed to get to the airport He replied, ‘Blurrgghh?’ Well, I thought, if he’s going to Poland he needs to get a move on. Then I woke up. It was 5:45 am. It reminded me of a conversation we’d had with our […]

This whole week I have been trying to be really disciplined and get into the mode of working 9 to 5 (what a way to make a living) but the distractions are just too numerous. The three main culprits are: – Youtube.com – curse your metal body. The whole internet is pretty frickin distracting. My […]