Journalist. Interests - finance economics, politics, philosophy, literature, childish humour. Refugee from the other place, trying to build a new life.
The key to getting older is regularly to remind yourself that no-one can stop you eating an ice cream in bed when drunk. And more importantly that there is nothing whatsoever wrong with that life choice.
A reminder that the best way to establish that you are who you say you are when you join BlueSky is to post a unique picture of your cat.
#proofOfCat is the most valid form of ID
Staying in cheap roadside hotel in south France. There is a community of semi-feral cats living nearby. When there are no people about, they hang around the pool. The proprietor is very relaxed about it. And I strongly approve.
I am reminded of Snail by Richard Miller, which read years ago on the basis of a blurb that quoted Burroughs saying ‘this is great’. Picture shows review from Kirkus magazine.
The role he plays in the film is pretty much himself. Middle class advertising man who joins the wartime fire service. His short story The Wall is great, based on real near death experience as a fireman. Sansom wrote a story, his fellow fireman survivor Len Rosoman painted a picture of the incident.
Estate agent: ‘the conservatory is a beautiful space suffused with natural light.’
Translation: ‘it serves as a perpetual reminder that you are not mature,
responsible or organised enough to own your own house.’
