….1.00am and I’m lying awake, silently cursing the aching in my knees and shoulders that are keeping me from sleep. Voices outide, laughter, hooting calls. John and Pauline having another party? No – they’re too considerate to let guests make such a noise outsde at this time of night. B snores on beside me. Icautiously […]
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August 2006
I’ve suspected for a long time that I have Aspergers Syndrome (although sometimes I think I’m not Aspie at all, but just normally weird). My life-long difficulty making eye contact with people is one of the reasons for my suspicion; it’s a well-known AS trait (along with a tendency to mistake the standard “How are […]
Been meaning to write something here for days, but somehow the urge stops when I actually sit down to do it. Anyway, my health is both better and worse. I’ve been off the Ibuprofen for three weeks now and I’m feeling quite a lot better. I actually walked back from the village shop this morning […]
….plenty long enough, I would have thought, for some real evidece to emerge in the foiled “Al Qaeda plot” to to blow up planes. Sure, two guns and a suspicious suitcase have been found in High Wycombe woods. But if they had any connection with the “terrorists” who have been banged up, an announcement to […]
Cell by Stephen King The blurb on the back claims that King is the greatest storyteller ever. Oh no he’s not. Not on the evidence of this, anyway. I can instantly come up with the names of at least three other authors whose plotting and characterisation are consistently superior to this. (OK, the three are […]
Washing all of our mugs this afternoon, I wondered how on earth we ended up with 22 of them. I mean, with only two of us in this house, we really don’t need anything like this many. Then I remembered the time I was helping to clear my mother’s flat after she died. I had […]