social distancing in parklands is a good model for how we ought to manage ourselves when driving our cars
I’m in love with my car but prefer wearing lycra.
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I want to be alone (by two metres)
We were trading body and eye language ; ‘I’ll go left, so you too go left’, and it worked except for one person
Expression of Freedom
they want to steal my ideas and publish them under another name. I’d been here before and although the alarm bells weren’t peeling in total panic, they did tinkle like a pillow muffled alarm clock.
Rivoli (Part 2): The Castle, a surprise gift and the end of 2001 Space Odyssey.
The self-induced pressure lifted as soon as the hotel receptionist told me that Rivoli’s Castle was just beyond where I had already walked last night. All I had to do was return to the town centre and walk up the old cobbled street. The August morning sun was...
Thomas has Cooked his goose
they could ‘finish Cooks off’ whenever they wanted. Some three years later and after another massive bail out, the same person told me they no longer needed to wield the sword of Damocles because Cooks were still on the same suicidal path and the new money was not going towards changing their business,
Rivoli Part 1: Cobbles, balconies and Aperol Spritz.
This property was fine. The receptionist knew my name before I told him who I was. This impressed me because it showed he had invested time in looking at the arrivals list.
Seasons of Summary
It’s a case of heads down over the laptop, writing out index cards, slurp a warm drink, procrastinate a little, sip a little more, realign the pencils and hunch again back over the laptop.
YOU MAKE AN OLD MAN VERY HAPPY
This is code for saying that I kicked opponents and demonstrated toughness and gamesmanship. My colleagues liked it and to be honest, I enjoyed their plaudits.
Me, me, me.
I went backstage after the performance I was shocked at how small my friend’s dressing corner was in comparison to the established star’s room. We went to the actors’ bar