Subtlety: best avoided when hungry
Tuesday, April 21st, 2009An exchange with a sandwich vendor who didn’t quite get it.
"And then he said..."
Two-fingered typing and cheap photography, since November 2002
Archive for the ‘Me Me Me’ Category
Knifage
Thursday, November 22nd, 2007Off to hospital again yesterday (the Charing Cross, in Fulham Palace Road) for a check-up following my leg and elbow operations earlier this year.
Wordage
Saturday, March 31st, 2007If I type this really fast it may just sneak under the wire and count as a March post, thus keeping up my new average of a post a month in 2007. Pretty grim stuff, compared with the several a day I used to manage when writing this thing was fresh and new in late 2002.
Perplexity
Saturday, February 17th, 2007So, well, yes, it's been a while since I last posted. Quite a bit's happened, actually.
Limping forwards
Sunday, November 12th, 2006When I fell on Friday I didn't hear the heavy, muffled sound, like a thick bar of chocolate being snapped in its wrapper, that heralded my broken foot of a few years ago.
Loitering within tents
Monday, September 25th, 2006Ever gluttons for punishment, we spent the weekend in a small tent on a hillside in Somerset. Friday night served up gale force winds, Saturday gave us thunderstorms, but the tent – a relic from my days in the Scouts and 25 years old if it's a day – was equal to all.
Rebranding
Thursday, September 14th, 2006A while ago I got an email from San Francisco – a very small publisher planning a very low budget anthology had seen a brief snippet of my writing and wanted me to submit more for inclusion.
An anniversary of sorts
Wednesday, August 2nd, 2006Seven years ago from the day that's just ending I found myself suddenly and (somewhat) unexpectedly out of a job. A quick bit of spinning and I was self employed, freelance, my own boss.
Haven't had a regular paycheque since, it's all been invoicing by the day.
Haven't looked back, either – I heartily recommend it as [...]
Here we go again
Sunday, July 9th, 2006So, we're back from holiday – have been for a week actually.
Audit
Sunday, June 18th, 2006Have been doing some thinking, as follows…
