It turns out my fury yesterday was justified after all, as the architect wrote to say that actually the taps would look more beautiful on the counter, don’t you think? I lay on my face for a while, possessed with rage, much to the GF’s obvious distress, but there is not much to be done […]
Fabio on a balcony
One of our neighbouring flats has been taken by a Fabio lookalike. He has flowing leonine locks, a perpetually bare and well-formed chest, and a tattoo on his arm. He sits on his balcony in the mornings and occasionally shakes out his hair.
A sort of savings
A better work day than yesterday, partly because I sent off the text I’d written to the person I’d written it for, and he was very pleased with it. So that started the morning off well, and the next task went rather more smoothly. In the afternoon, the GF and I returned to the paint […]
Paint job
It was a funny sort of weekend, with both of us feeling anxious and tense about the flat and its progress, as well as various work related matters. For me, there was the annoyance of one of my longstanding clients revealing that as of two years ago invoices have to be submitted using a special […]
A quiet, weary tone
You don’t have to look like a lumberjack.
Day 2 of too many
Day 2 was marginally better than day 1, in that I found some work to do, but not much. In the evening I had a pleasant chat with the chief editor of our magazine. We are discussing how to set up a charity to accept small payments for workshops etc, so that the magazine can […]
Old town crowds
The GF had a day off – he, unlike me, gets public holidays – and in the afternoon, after I had finished some work, we took the tram over to the Sultanahmet area, planning to take advantage of thinned crowds on a Monday to visit a few sites. It turned out to be very crowded […]
Fury at the MoD
The Sunday Times, 29 August 2021
What lies underneath
An unexpected realisation that has come with years spent alive and reasonably aware is of how people find explanations for the past in the anxieties of the present. This ia particularly true in academia. I listened to a podcast interview today with a historian who wrote about the Black Death and described how that pandemic […]
Sick at heart
Afghanistan continues to leave one sick at heart. Today, aside from everything else that has happened in the past days, is the news that a British man got out with scores of animals from his animal shelter, on what must have been one of the last few flights. Aside from leaving countless journalists, working women, […]