Everyone is entitled to the odd moments of surrealism, the other day I spent twenty minutes staring in a mirror convinced my nose had changed shape but then I carried on with a normal person’s day. On the other hand, French director Jean Pierre Jeunet seems to live in that world constantly, and I applaud [...]
I found myself doing something I never thought I’d do, shouting at a man on the internet. I didn’t write it down and post a rude comment, which makes me better than 75% of Youtube, I just voiced my feelings to my laptop so not rude, just somewhat crazy. The offending internet man, or possibly [...]
As I’ve mentioned before, I am a terrible procrastinator. Actually I’m great at procrastinating, and that in itself is a problem. If we count this blog as a way of whittling away the hours, it’s just adding to the list of staring aimlessly into space, putting on the kettle, going on holiday, moving house and [...]
I’m writing this column from the Virgin Trains First Class Lounge at Birmingham New Street train station, the luxurious oasis of calm within one of the city’s major stations. Why am I telling you this? I’m telling you this because the idea of tap-tap-tapping away at a laptop in the lounge makes me feel one [...]
There are some writers out there, (the successful ones), who have a ‘place in the country’ to run off for a weekend and write. I, on the other hand, am escaping the gas bill that comes with living in a high ceiling/non carpeted tenement in freezing wintery Glasgow by visiting my parents. Let me tell [...]
