The day that was
Listening to: Karaoke Queen – Catatonia – Equally Cursed & Blessed I read in Bill Bryson’s A Short History of Nearly Everything, ‘it is easy to make any banal situation extraordinary if you treat it as fateful’. But life’s little moments are always banal unless one treats it as fateful. Great epic adventures don’t need […]
We once were you and me
Listening to: Positively 4th Street – Bob Dylan – Masterpieces (2) It’s not that I am not over you. I have been healthily over you for some years now. But you’re getting married. I wish you well and all that. Your well-being is no longer in my realm. I once loved you. That love lasted […]
Tantric
Listening to: La Luna en Tu Mirada – Manuel Galbán/Ry Cooder – Mambo Sinuendo I had to get out of the house today, so I went and had dinner with a close friend, his brother and his mother. Then we went to his house and watched tv with his housemate, his boyfriend and his housemate’s […]
Love Letter
Listening to: Better Days – Bruce Springsteen – Greatest Hits As if I needed a pick-me-up. Checked the letter tray and found something addressed to me. But it had ‘On Government Service’ on the envelope, and had my rank before my name in full. Thankfully it wasn’t another ‘love letter’, or SAF100. It was a […]
R.I.P. Max (Maximus Decimus Meridius) the Cat
Listening to: Across the Borderline – Freddy Fender – It’ll Come to You: The Songs of John Hiatt Max had been missing from the house for more than a day, which wasn’t unusual. No one told me for fear I’d be in hysterics (!), and I’ve only just been informed after my nephew’s birthday party. […]