An elderly millionaire baronet has been found stabbed to death in his country house in Dorset. A suspect has been taken into custody driving furiously through Hammersmith. A four foot long rabbit – which is also suspiciously long-lived – has been stolen from its Worcestershire kennel, but a pet detective is hot on its trail. […]
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Drums in the distance
It is the first of Ramazan and I am working late into the night. Outside, drums are playing and a man is chanting or singing to wake people for sehri. Distance is more alliterative than accurate, as he is standing under our window. It seems rather early to me, as it is not yet 2 […]
Glad to know
Glad to know there is always a patriarch. This is from today’s Guardian. Fuck me.
What I noticed
1. Unavoidably, Prince Philip died 2. Imran Khan digs in on jackassery 3. North Ireland, unsurprisingly, is not a happy place post-Brexit 4. More heartbreaking blasphemy accusations in Pakistan 5. Vaccine movements restricted 6. Myanmar ambassador locked out of his embassy 7. Infrastructure week happened in America again, but I was not really paying attention […]
International style
Today, we went to Nisantasi with the intent of going on to one of the markets. Unsurprisingly, it was closed, what with it being a lockdown, but on the way we explored some interesting new streets, including one lined with cake shops. Finding the market closed led to a minor crisis as the GF was […]
Big news
You know the death of Prince Philip is big news when it displaces, in short order, from the top of the Guardian’s list of most viewed news articles both ‘Tui plane in “serious incident” after every “Miss” on board was assigned child’s weight’ and ‘A maggot hatched from my head’.
Absurdism
I was so angry I went to my room with my iPad. X told me he is reading a book by Albert Camus. He said Albert Camus writes absurdism. So I looked for an absurdist film to watch on Netflix. Then I fell asleep.
Good neighbours
The (hopefully) final blast of winter is here, cold, grey and wet. Hopefully just till tomorrow and then the forecast says temperatures should climb and the sun should emerge. The relative has rallied a little. He has been conscious throughout, and it must be terrifying to be in that high oxygen room surrounded by PPE. […]
Waiting
This morning news came that the relative by marriage is not doing well. His organs are shutting down. His child sent me a heartbreaking voice message asking me to recite a prayer for him, holding his face and name in my mind. It is the prayer of Jonah in the belly of the whale, a […]
Scattered head
I’m back to work today, and am certainly struggling. It doesn’t help that after a couple of days off, the work is both considerable and immensely tedious. My head feels scattered, and I am unable to concentrate on anything much. The relative by marriage in Pakistan is not doing well at all. It’s even odds, […]