WALKED THE DOGS. The puppy played with a cocker spaniel. The elder canine kept an avuncular watch from the distance. Pup keeps seeing squirrels high above her in the trees and her excitement inspires the Elder who capers arthritically over to try to join in although she's past being able to crane her neck and [...]
IT’S THE BLANK page which causes all the trouble. Or the blank screen with the vertical flickering text bar. Crying out to be filled like a hungry dog in the back streets of Sorrento it needs to be silenced with some crumbs of creatively-inspired comfort. One solution is to dredge the swirling wells of experience [...]
• THERE ARE more than 2,000 species of toenail. • Toenails are so called because they 1) originate on toes and 2) were used as nails before nails were invented. In fact the Great Pyramid of Cheops is held together by no fewer than one billion, billion individual toenails, many believed to ave been clipped [...]
THE STONES ATTRACT pagans, mystics, England football fans and other types with a slim grasp on reality. Politicians, Big Brother contestants, Alan Titchmarsh and blogging ‘experts’ all gather to worship the rising and setting of the sun on the longest day. It’s a ritual whose origins are lost in the dim distant mists of time. [...]
The Duvet Factory Girl NOTHING EVER HAPPENED to Jim Collins. Nothing, that is, apart from commuting into work at the bank and commuting back. Five days a week, then a weekend taken up with the lads down the pub. And Sunday spent recovering and regaining any reserves of strength to start the whole cycle all [...]
IT WOULD BE a feather in my cap if I could write a scream of consciousness without any clichés. But it’s because they’re so well-loved that they’re clichés after all. But if I was to grasp the nettle hoping that lady luck was smiling on me I might not look before I leap and come [...]
I CAN’T BELIEVE that I’ve won nothing to recognise my artistic genius which I keep in the desk drawer of my back bedroom. Thank you so much for not beating a path to my door to offer me television contracts, book deals and panel game shows. Everybody in my house knows that my genius deserves [...]
IT WAS WHILE I was lying in a painful, twisted heap on the floor, during my yoga class, that I suddenly wondered whatever happened to an old friend. He is a rake-thin, wiry chap so it was probably the apparent flexibility of his body that brought him to mind at that particular moment. Trevor Herstmonceux [...]
1pr thick rubber gloves Rope, 2 foot. Meat cleaver Hacksaw Heavy duty plastic bags Swarfega Disinfectant Bleach Shovel Grass seeds Library for book on local beauty spots and book on theatrical make up Balaclava Black sweater Airline ticket to South America (one way).
YOUR DAILY LIFE is punctuated by a series of unbidden pronouncements, commands and warnings. Wherever you go you are warned to ‘keep off the grass’, ‘clean up after your dog’ (even if you only have a goldfish) and to not ‘play ball games’. It seems nigh on impossible to walk for five minutes without receiving [...]