Archive for May, 2006

Prophet

Thursday, May 25th, 2006

It’s 8 o’clock a.m. and I’m waiting for the bus, standing in front of the restaurant where I just had my breakfast - idly and wada - a South Indian curry breakfast. Behind me, piles of blue and white toilets, basins and other bathroom appliances are piled in front of a hardware shop. Plungers dangle […]

The East

Tuesday, May 23rd, 2006

It was time to go east – not Hackney (the East London Borough of Bastard), but further out, much further out, beyond Clacton even. Woah!
TARGET: Bombay aka Mumbai.
Jet Airways – despite the kind of obvious name (next there’ll be a â€?Plane Airways’ or perhaps â€?Air Plane’) they are pretty good. Well, the plane did […]

Wiki-d

Thursday, May 18th, 2006

Ah-ha, today I made my first original posting on Wikipedia - on the ‘bump of locality’. Oh yeah! Then, what do I find they don’t like it because it is a ‘term’ (which is an illegal entry). So I edited to take both references to term, let’s see what happens. Just in case they do […]

The Sweetest Little Song

Tuesday, May 16th, 2006

At last a copy of Leonard Cohen’s new volume of poesy has arrived on my desk - The Book of Laundry. Hurrah. A small poem from the book -
The Sweetest Little Song
You go your way,
I’ll go your way too.
Which I believe he refers to as the smallest love song, or something-or-other. Good innit!
It’s still […]