Archive for June, 2007

Don’t Look Now
June 22, 2007

I stumble into the kitchen still asleep and she immediately engages me in a conversation about where we are going on holiday. I absent-mindedly place a bowl of cheerios on the floor for the cat and pour myself a generous portion of whiskas biscuits. Not bad as it goes, though next time I shan’t add [...]

Roadkill
June 17, 2007

The journey is punctuated with roadkill. They flash past in a blur of fur and lurid crimson, staining the tarmac, unwitting victims of a river of projectiles which cannot be stemmed day or night. Soft flesh and brittle bone is no match for implacable metal and velocity, and there is only ever going to be [...]

Clowne (at the junction)
June 12, 2007

The trouble with standing at a street corner in a small northern town for more than, say, two consecutive hours, is that it quickly sends the local residents into panic mode. Granted, being endowed with the appearance of a Colombian drug cartel member may bump up their anxiety levels ever so slightly, maybe even send [...]

Almost blue
June 11, 2007

watch the video here.

Cannibal Housemate
June 3, 2007

The new Big Brother series is upon us, and given my lowly status within my household, I have little or no say in the delicate matter of choosing channels or even whether or not the television should be switched off, the remote control fiercely guarded like a bone under her snout.

Originally, I confess having expressed [...]

Shaggy Blog Stories Podcast
June 2, 2007

Ever wondered what the prat who writes the ubiquitous nonsense you read here sounds like? Would you like to know? Didn’t think so.
Even so, Mike has compiled a podcast featuring 14 of the 100 contributions to Shaggy Blog Stories, read by their authors, and it is available to buy over at Lulu’s for a measly [...]