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It’s a hot hot day. I haven’t been really taking advantage, though I should’ve been. Just too hot. Well, at least the summer is here at last. Just now on the tram I had a mildly unfortunate journey. A stop … Continue reading
Friday was stupid. I know all I do is drink but I’m the one who practices moderation I’d say. Lots of pico and stuff going round. I was good, I only had the ‘Slivovice Special’ from the unmarked bottle in … Continue reading
Went out to a small town a way outside Prague to pay a brief visit to Chelsea & Petra in their cottage yesterday. It was alright – we walked for about a week before getting to a school-hall style bar … Continue reading
Hm well. Jeremiah’s art opening at the Roxy yesterday, then down to the usual two bars I frequent to get hammered and return to bed. Hm. Today, don’t feel so good.
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Nothing interesting is going on right now so I thought I’d take a break from my own goings on and give a brief update of (what I know of) the lives of those people previously featured in this journal. Not … Continue reading
A quieter weekend, spent cleaning, sewing and otherwise in the fashion of a workhouse woman. Saturday I went to hang out with Lucie, who’s back in town. Hamish and Wendy came along too. We hung around her flat drinking wine, … Continue reading
I’ve watched so much Simpsons of late that I’m starting to have premonitions of the episodes prior to watching them. Today I was listening to the news and started to think about two wrongs not equaling a right for some … Continue reading
Since waking this morning with a throat almost closed dry from infection and dubious mucus, the colour of which I am fortunately unable to see, I have had a constant stream of people phoning me up and asking me to … Continue reading
I’m lying on my bed this afternoon, reading. In the last 48 hours I’ve read Adolf Hitler: My Part in His Downfall by Spike Milligan, So the Wind Won’t Blow It All Away by Richard Brautigan, Kitchen by Banana Yoshimoto … Continue reading
