STATE RUN FUNERAL SERVICE PART 1 Please read it first or it will make even less sense than usual. (a feat more impossible than dividing by zero) The end of part 1 reprise “Please let me speak.” The guy said. “It’s the casket you’ve left at the house,” he said. I hated those […]
Induction One of my more interesting jobs was answering the phone for the State run funeral service. I had already learnt my lesson – about induction courses. So I applied myself fully to the job training. I wasn’t worried, attitude gives you altitude as they say. I can handle anything. In funerals it’s about getting […]
“There’s only one thing that’s worse than having an unhappy childhood, and that’s having a too-happy childhood.” Dylan Thomas At one point I made a list of everything I could remember. Where you live, what you’re wearing. The best places to hide. Oh hold on, that post is for my stalking blog. Bad Memory […]
The Spa I had the recent experience of pretending I was going to a spa. I didn’t like it one bit. Perhaps my imagination needs to go to a spa. My imagination is threatened by pretending things it might like. My mental safespace is imagining a cup of tea then hoping someone else makes one […]
I shout at my phone, It’s consistently “No !!” It eats chunks of text, I know not where they go, I prefer writing on paper, the process is slow, But it’s not like I’m in any great hurry. My phone uses algorithms to edit my text, It supposedly knows what I want to write next, […]
It takes a special kind of someone to produce something simple that is also special. Huh? Don’t blame me blame Billy Joe Shaver. I remember a phrase in Zen Buddhism a phrase “putting legs on a snake.” Where smart people start using their brains and make the simplest of things harder and harder. Billy Joe […]
Big Boy At 3 years old I remember running into the other room to show everyone my new word “****” I said. “****” I was so pleased at myself. I was a big boy. I knew loads of words. I went everywhere saying “****” Anywhere I went inside and outside the house “****” They couldn’t […]
Does that count as my question? OK. Can I ask you two questions? Does that count as one of my questions? OK. Can I ask you three questions? Does that count as one of my questions? I’ve still got one question left. Is that right? OK. Can I ask you four questions? Is it […]
In a word, misophonia. (Fear of sound) A fascinating and somewhat disturbing manifestation that boasts no diagnostic criteria and isn’t thought of as a psychiatric condition. The term Misphonia originated in a publication by audiologists Powel & Margaret Jastreboff in 2000 and is described as a neurological disorder whereby certain trigger sounds can provoke extreme […]
A white -haired gibbon Under – Age Drinking When I was younger, too young to drink, I snuck into a bar with my friend to play pool. In my village they didn’t often follow the law when it came to drinking age. If you had money,you were in. The pool table was right behind the […]
