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Stuff and Nonsense October 16, 2006

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I do worry about Number 2 Son… but I wish my own head worked in the ferociously outlandish way that produces such gems as:

“Can you imagine what it would be like to be a Siamese twin?  Your other half might do funny things with your knees.  And what if you shared a stomach and your other half was a vegetarian?  You’d be wanting a burger and your other half would be saying ‘no, dude, it’s cow bums…”

Now, what can possibly go on in a small boy’s mind to produce such stuff?  Whatever it is, I hope he never loses it.

Before Caffeine October 13, 2006

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Enveloped in fog

Grey mist seeps into my thoughts

Colouring my day

Done (in) October 8, 2006

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Well, the ECA was finally submitted at 7.30am on Friday morning before I stumbled off to work after 3 hours sleep. Not until now have I begun to consider the potential folly of submitting a short story about hippies, witchcraft and a potential lesbian vicar. Oh ‘eck.
The children whooped for joy when I finally finished. I think they were waiting for their breakfast.

I suggested that we celebrate in some way after school to mark the joyous event.

“How about some proper nutritious food for a change?” smirked Number One Son. Smartarse.

So… now it’s all over. I can do all the things that have been put on hold for so long. Well, I could do them - if I could remember what they were! So far, I have only come up with the following alluring plans:

Not a great start is it? Needless to say, my brain refuses to stop whirring and I am, at this very moment, still in bed… not relaxing at all but surrounded by books, magazines, notepads, pens, highlighters and The Writers and Artists Yearbook, scribbling ideas about new ideas, stories, markets for my short stories and wondering what I’ll wear on Parky when my (as yet unfinished) novel tops the bestseller list. Well… the washing/ironing/tidying up hasn’t mattered for the last nine months. Seems a shame to start now.

As Quentin Crisp said in The Naked Civil Servant: “After the first four years, the dirt doesn’t get any worse.” Sounds good to me.

The ECA approacheth October 1, 2006

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With the A215 final deadline looming, lovely bf and me decided last night that we would have a concerted ’study day’ today. So far, bearing in mind it is now 1.45, we have had a lie-in, talked about writing, spent a considerable amount of time looking for aforementioned lovely bf’s ’special writing hat’, drunk some vodka, discovered a website which mentions a pet radish named after Cliff Richard and perfected the incredibly wonderful but little-known ‘funky chicken dance’ in preparation for the recommencement next Saturday of ‘Strictly Come Dancing’.

The vodka has now all been swigged mysteriously run out and lovely bf is scavenging through the emergency miniatures on the pantry floor in search of inspiration. You will be relieved to know, interested reader, that he has not yet resorted to the Grand Marnier method of creative impulse, despite my helpful advice that it would taste ‘just like an alcoholic Jaffa Cake’.

Give it time…