Blog posts by year and monthNovember 2017
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Any kind of fool could see
It’s already 7am and I haven’t even watched a tv show, never mind a movie. This is slacking and I can only apologise. I wont let it happen again. I have made porridge, turned the thermostat up and handed over a CD case for windscreen scraping but that’s about it. Today’s film doesn’t start until...
I gotta get that southbound train tonight
Shhh. I’m watching a film. It’s 7am and I’m actually watching a film. Have been since 6am. It’s ok I’m in my kitchen, not in a cinema but I’ve run out of hours in the day. Fortunately it’s a good one, festive, Dickensian and it’s got Jonathan Pryce in it. Coffee, toast and movies might just be t...
Sitting on a cornflake
Had a 3 Worder yesterday along the lines of ‘annual snow-mageddon hyperbole’ which seems about right. ‘Blooming cold for a while but then it’s about to be Winter’ would have been a less catchy but more accurate headline. Some papers seem to predict weather catastrophe every year, every season w...
There's nothing in the woodshed
2 bacon sandwiches, 4 coffees, 1 car to the garage, 2 brisk, bone chilling walks and a 10K run (observed).
A few stolen moments is all that we share
There’s a spectacular bird singing in the dark outside my house right now. I really should know what it is but sadly my twitching skills don’t stretch that far. Whatever it is, it’s the most delightful start to Friday. It stops when it gets light then starts again around 5am. Every house/garden ...
You don't know how much they all mean
Well most seem to have enjoyed Richard Osman’s appearance yesterday, especially his list of things that we do best in this country. Plenty to cheer after all, as it turns out. Then I hastened to the glittering West End to see a new play Heisenberg: The Uncertainty Principle starring Anne-Marie D...
Building me a fence
Hey. Early morning November Wednesdays are my speciality. All dealt with via a de-caff coffee, a merry dance and a dash of mascara. Ms Prior is convinced that blokes should apply it on a daily basis. Who am I to disagree? All available help is welcome...
I hope it's just your laugh that is infectious
Well I managed to stay wake all day and, through the application of an emergency mince pie and well known chocolate bar, through the show too. The vertical sleeping, sperm whale thing, was kept for the journey home.
We think you're incredible
3.30am not a pretty place to begin the week. I tried all the usual techniques-counting backwards in threes from 700, plotting the next book, concentrating on my breathing, naming everyone from my primary school register, translating the Aeneid into ancient French etc.
Where's the sense in that?
Well the loudest band in the world (apparently they still have the record) took to the Radio Theatre stage last night. There are almost certainly rules about that sort of thing these days-they sounded no louder than Muse a few years back-but they certainly were a band who knew exactly what they ...
