Show Reel 2016

Early Modern

“That’s so Early Modern,” says Sofagurl. “How do you mean?” I reply. I told her about my disrupted sleeping pattern: eat between 8 and 9pm, fall onto the bed, make a phone call, pass out, wake up about 3am, take off my work clothes, go for a pee, get back into bed, read the Guardian […]

The Most Valuable Raspberry

I ate my evening meal at the kitchen table while my landlady tested her two daughters on their spelling homework. Then they clamoured for her to read them a story. They wanted book nine from the Lemony Snicket series. Five minutes into their pre-bedtime read I found myself remembering my own bedtime reading. My Mum […]

Humans are so inventive

The other day I heard an excellent sex anecdote, with a couple of eyebrow-raising twists, and was most amused by it. But I can’t retell it…that wouldn’t be in keeping with this blog. It might also reveal the identity of the person involved and that would be unfair. All I can say is that the […]