Archive for September 2017

1. Well, who saw that coming? Just like that, today I have developed an intense fear of flying. A plane flew overhead earlier and all I could think was, HOW DOES THAT STAY UP IN THE AIR? It’s not natural. Even with science and wing spans and gravity stuff, it is NOT natural. I know…

1. I AM breathing Working hard on not restricting my breath as a stress mechanism right now as I’m trying hard to tackle a tottering pile of emails and messages and maybe, just maybe, be a little organized for when I return. Oh, how I’m doubled over laughing at that. It seems the closer I…

1. Hands where I can see them Hoping for a few changes since my last long-haul flight alone. Fingers crossed there’s no masturbating man across the aisle which is a big turn-off when you’re eating plane food. Sadly once I was the one embarrassed and said nothing. Oh how very different it will be this…

1. My laptop My laptop is not as it should be, even after a new hard drive was installed. Nothing is back where it belongs and I’m missing emails and documents and my sanity. Particularly infuriating is that the page now moves up and down in the opposite way it did before. THIS most of…

1. Gorse is good Today I learnt gorse, that rampant prickly bush covered in yellow flowers, was not as I’d understood it to be, an out-of-control pest killing all our native fauna. In factuality, it allows plants that prefer more shadow than light to flourish and bees love it. Hence, yes hence, it’s absolutely marvellous…

1. The TV dad I can’t help it, my vote’s for Frank Gallagher (William H. Macy) of Shameless. I figure no matter how low he scrapes the bottom of the barrel he’ll always eventually, in his own way, get behind his fabulously dysfunctional family. (And I do like a good dysfunctional family.) Also if we…

1. I still can’t sleep I am taking a Game of Thrones size army of drugs and still waking through the night, most nights. For a while there I thought we (me and my non-chatty psychiatrist) were getting there. I had a couple of nights where I slept for six hours. In a row! I…