04/17/2024

I know we’re all sick to death of conspiracy theories which is why I want to tell you about a new one I might have invented. 


Or perhaps experienced a sequence of mental events that could, all things being equal, have had me going around the house with a hammer knocking holes in the drywall instead of typing on my MacBook Pro.


02/06/2024

You may have noticed that watching TV’s an excellent way to stop yourself thinking. 


Last week, when I was holding my little dog as she was dying from a tumor on her liver, for a distraction I Netflixed some Zack Snyder movies. I couldn’t tell you how I got there; I was curious about Rebel Moon?

01/07/2024

I’d been in the middle of writing about my visit to the local cineplex for its special Christmas showing of Die Hard, which I’d never seen in full, certainly not on a big screen, and how the ‘merry’ in ‘Merry Christmas’ doesn’t actually mean happy, or at least that’s not its original, far richer meaning—

11/12/2023

In 2019 I had the flu. One of those lingering, rolling bouts that seem to be over then return to keep you hovering in a vaguely feverish almost pleasurable state, taking too much decongestant so your nose hurts and your eyes get prickly and dry…

09/25/2023

My garden. Let’s define terms; ‘garden’ can be misleading, can lead to unrealistic expectations—and nobody likes that.


So. What we’re talking about here is what’s outside the house; a biggish amount of rock-filled ground hacked from surrounding woodlands…

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Deny

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