Dear Pricilia
I just found this old reply that I once sent in response to an email I received at work. Oddly enough they never got back to me. Dear Pricilia, Really…
This one’s for 009
Yesterday I went to the circus. A ‘WORLD-FAMOUS’ one, no less, which appeared to have forgone invitations to perform in the Tuileries, Vienna and Hyde Park in favour of a…
You can’t beat the system
Sitting in the window of the 8.33 to Chingford this morning, I became aware of the gentle metallic drumming noise of the semi-recumbent, dreadlocked man in the seat behind me…
Promenade
If ever there were a place to truly appreciate the zoomorphic nature of people, it is among the human bats and pigeons drifting round the galleries of the Royal Albert…
Telecommunications
There is a phone on my desk at work. Someone told me to be wary of answering it, but I am of the opinion that it’s much safer to answer…
Alfie with a straight razor
Normally I’m all in favour of making a bad impression, since it saves you the trouble of being discovered as a fraud later on, but job interviews are a notable…
Touristic information
While tumbling through Holborn Circus and a meandering conversation with my old mate Francis at around midnight last Thursday, I was delighted to discover that there is a statue of…
A very 21st-century wedding
Being unemployed has its downsides, but it does mean that you’re available for unusual experiences that someone in a nine-to-five would have to turn down. I got hitched the other…
Square eyes
Another day, another ad in my in-box that informs me that e-book readers are now reduced in price at various retail outlets. I wonder if anyone has ever bought one,…
Some scraps of conversation from my notebook
It had been a long day, with four kilometres or so trudging across the valley floor to get back to our camp from the bottom of the mountain.‘I’m not such…
