Archives for: "October 2011"
What's in a name?
NoIdeaWhatHerNameIs responds to my request to dispel my ignorance thus: "You may call me Mistress, but Donna would be friendlier though." more »
I do not like television
I come home to find that two of my daughters have made a cake out of a packet sponge mix. I am very pleased, and tell them so, and start on the chick pea curry. On the radio, Mohsin Hamid is talking interestingly about The Reluctant Fundamentalist more »
A literary miscellany
Some literary loose ends. As Smallbeds found out, O'Brien's centenary yesterday. Smallbeds responds with a succinct apologia if you're hesitating, as I did for many years, from approaching O'Brien. Don't waver. It's easy to read and if you can get throug… more »
Looks are everything
At 4am this morning, wide awake, I thought I'd see if anyone had been looking at my profile on the dating site since I last checked it, several minutes earlier. To my surprise a little notification of an incoming message popped up from someone I've been… more »
Best laid plans
I had my first drink yesterday at 8.45am and the last at 11pm. I loved it all. There's an aesthetic quality to drinking, a sensual pleasure that you can't talk about, of your skin being stroked. "I wish he would get out of the car, because I was going to… more »
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