September 2009
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“To know what you prefer, instead of humbly saying ‘amen’ to what the...”
– Robert Louis Stevenson
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Humour
Commenting on the too-similar colours of the Wallpaper city guides I said, “I mean, look at these two.. Mexico City and Marseilles are almost the same orange, and they’re right next to each other as well,” then I added with a laugh, “not geographically of course.”
If I wasn’t the one in charge I think M. would have rolled her eyes. The “huh” that...
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“The first question I ask myself when something doesn’t seem to be...”
– John Cage
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Exhaustion.
Another day.
I need a break.
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From work...
… home … sleep ….. wake up ……
…. to work ….
…… home ….. sleep ….. wake up …..
I don’t like the working life.
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“Sometimes I’ve believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast.”
– Lewis Caroll
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Sometimes...
…you reach that point when it’s simply impossible for things to get any worse.
Trudging, cold and drenched, to Euston station at night in monsoon-style rains with shoes so full of water that they both squelched and sloshed at the same time, after a slightly hysterical day at work while being lied to and avoided by estate agents, knowing that the car had broken down and we had no lift...
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“There is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so.”
– William Shakespeare
Hamlet
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Why can't.
Why can’t life be simple? And cheap.
Why can’t estate agents say, “Oh, you want a house? Here, have this one. It’s lovely. And here, we’ll throw in some inclusive bills as well.”
And why can’t the taxman say, “Okay, we have lots of money now, keep yours for yourself. In fact, we have too much really, would you like some back? And forget that silly...