Monthly Archives: May 2006
Fabulous, Harry, I love the feathers.
Got woken up at 9:30 today after going to bed at 5:00 a.m. Why at 5:00, you ask? Because Thomas and his flatmate and I were up until then downloading Disney songs and singing along. The Lad, who woke me up this morning talking to another flatmate and then came back to bed, said “When … Continue reading
The Slumlord of Gropecunt Road
We’re making dinner in Thomas’s kitchen and the lettuce is covered with little snails and slugs. Each new creepy-crawly discovered gives rise to a long debate about how best to dispose of it — down the sink? In the trash? Outside? In the salad, for protein? We sit around drinking wine and listening to Thomas … Continue reading
Overheard conversation in a post office in Paris
I order a dozen stamps at the post office counter and then Melanie and I walk off to stick them while the Lad pays. “Always the same, eh?” the post office man commiserates. “Ze woman orders, ze man pays.” “Indeed,” says the Lad. “A woman in Paris,” says the post office man, lost in a … Continue reading