What else could be more suitable for a Friday night but the movie ‘Romantics Anonymous’…sshhh it’s French yes…though occasionally even French movies prove a point, besides this one is about chocolate. Two simply opposite things in my world combined in …
Oh young heart what are you dreaming of.Despite that, at night I almost kiss the winner of the snooker UK championship (yep no doubt I watched far too much Snooker lately – ah see what sport does to me!?) in …
The barricades were as quickly gone as they appeared. All that was left on the pavements …fine grey sand. No geologist obviously looked at the dry river bed outside of Sandwich. That’s where most of the water is in now, …
Now I definitely know why libraries are usually on the first floor…I couldn’t concentrate on O’Sullivan’s miserable game of snooker anymore, so I got into my jeans and coat and went out to speak with the neighbours. Then I went …
Suddenly the idea of living in a water mill right by the Stour doesn’t appear such an appealing reality. The MET office (by the way, it’s up for sale for 500 million pound; so is Eurostar for a few billion) …
This morning my head is a tiny black cabinetwhich brings about feelinglike a widow with the clarityof whom she really loved and whyit’s gone. Word of the day: mass enslavement(By the way, there are two separate entries for enslavement in …
I am unsure why it was on my bookshelf or for what reason it showed up in my bed yet it stirs great curiosity. The stories of Robin Hood lull me into sleep lately. Perhaps it was a desire to …
Silence prevails.The frost has reached the Northern particles of land, where bison become heavier, clusters of snow sprinkled onto their fur. Wolves follow cold trails and polar bears dig hollows. All life breathes in anticipation, instincts turn redder. Matches made, …
There we have it! In the midst of the Scotland Independence question (Independence Day, planned: 24th March 2016), BBC2 news on the radio at ten, meanwhile I scrub my naturally neat toilet, and wonder how inventive the desperate can be, …
My German word of the day: Unsterblichkeitstod.Picked from a book with a German title in an English speaking bookshop, with the subtitle ‘German words that describe emotions’.Death indeed is very much an emotion – actually it is more something like …
