It used to happen in the old world of office work. It happened to others too. Stop working, go on holiday, get ill. Wait weeks and months for that break…and see a portion of it disappear. I didn’t have it so bad. Sometimes it would be a bad cold that would descend for the trip, …
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Interlude 2: is inspiration a found item?
We long for it to be. We believe there is a pearl of great price, whatever other merchants have told us. We hear the story of Harry Potter, walking fully fledged into the imagination of the author, and take our own train journeys, on the look out for a lone character thumbing a lift. We …
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B is for bus ticket
This is on the edge of things that you hunt for, rather than things you encounter. But it’s an easy one – the city is littered with bus tickets, one way or another. This time, I find the ticket on the seat of the bus next to me. I feel a bit furtive. I don’t …
E is for energy
Somewhere along the line, I put my energy down for a bit, and forgot to pick it up again. I think that was it. Maybe I put it down and someone else thought it was theirs, and made off with it. Maybe I forgot to renew my energy, and now there are fines due. I …
12 Oct: a room in your childhood home
Which home? Which room? There’ve been a few. I think I need to describe my own room – that’s probably easiest to remember, and remember how I felt there too. We moved, you see. We moved quite a bit. Only in the UK, mind, but always long distance, enough that we were starting afresh each …