February 12th 2011. On this day, I turn 40. It has an age that has always seemed a lifetime away, even when I was 39½. 2011? That was ten years after Kubrick’s Space Odyssey and twelve years after Space 1999. It would be aeons before I became part of those futuristic worlds. I should be [...]
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I should write something and apologize for the lack of updates over the last couple of months. It has simply been a case of workload. As I wrote at the end of 2010, last year I published over 10,000 words per week and that takes a lot of time. This excludes a magnum opus on [...]
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There is nothing that warms the cockles of the heart than seeing your daughter skip blithely to school. If commuters skipped to work in the City or Wall Street, I am sure everyone would be far happier at work. Basically, all day writing and researching, flopping in front of the reality TV in the evening. [...]
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The leaden skies pevail. We drive to Reading via Argos to return our awful lamp shades. They should label them awful lamps shades in the catalogue so people like myself do not become confused. We are heading for Dunelm Mill in search of decent lamp shades, preferably ones not like those from Argos that effectively [...]
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Good night’s sleep at Hotel St. Josef and after a slightly stale croissant (well, this is Germany, not France) it is a short walk does to Zurich Bahnhof back to the airport. I have an urge to write up last night’s memorable tasting, but the battery on my laptop is flat, so all I can [...]
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Writing, writing, writing.
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Wife is ill. The house goes into lockdown. I spend the morning trying to put up our solid gold curtain rail. A majority of the time is spent shouting expletives at the wall, bemoaning the lintel that seems to be built out of diamond (the previous owners had warned us.) I have spent millions on [...]
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Oh dear. Oh dear, oh dear, oh dear. Last night, on the train home, I felt decidedly sick. You know, when you jaw seems to have come loose and bile seems to be swimming about your body. Please, not on the 11.45 to Guildford. I am a little sick when I get home, spend a [...]
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Work through the morning and then in the afternoon the Martin family cooks their first roast dinner in their new home. It’s chicken, the failsafe option as we are still getting used to the AGA that seems hellbent on cooking everything within five minutes. Hey…there’s no rush man. The dinner is a success, in other [...]
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You know, during the three years occupancy of our rented property, we maintained it pretty well, in fact, extremely well. My wife, Mrs. Spick and Span, cleaned it thoroughly every day and we never allowed shoes in the house. During that time, our skinflint landlady refused to spend a single penny on redecorating the early [...]
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