Posted in Misc on Dec 27th, 2007
The cat summoned us in the night with a few distressed mews as he lay on the dining room floor. We turned on the light and stayed with him. The lady who hated cats when I met her shed a tear and stroked him as he died.
Yes, he knew we were there
I reassured her as [...]
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Posted in Misc on Dec 26th, 2007
And so it is the day after.
Christmas has been and gone, as has the prodigal son. He brought a puppy. It peed, of course, but mostly on the newspaper put down for it, and stole slippers, and tried to dig to China under the table, and looked altogether pixilited with himself when allowed to watch [...]
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Posted in Misc on Oct 23rd, 2007
Roads, the running geologist, author, and author of the roadsofstone blog recently published a picture of his desk, picking up a nice idea that had been in The Guardian. Every desk tells a story.
Here’s mine. It’s a black tabletop on a child’s desk in the corner of what was a bedroom and is now a [...]
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Posted in Misc on Oct 7th, 2007
On Sunday mornings I start the day with a bacon sandwich, the Saturday edition of the Telegraph, and the BBC’s Andrew Marr on the TV interviewing the great and the good (Robert Harris this week on his new book) and the larger political beasts. Being temporarily retired from the fight against hunger and poverty has [...]
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