Month: October 2001

I’m currently sitting at my PC with a very large bag of ready-to-eat mixed salad, chomping away and making Popeye-eating-spinach-style mnyom-mnyom-mnyom noises. Ahhh, simple pleasures.

Sights seen this morning:

• Kiddies carrying Marks and Spencer balloons
• A man dressed as a banana
• Faces staring in my window as I stare back out, as the number 60 bus crawls through the queues on Orchard Street
• The boarded up doors at the front of Marks and Spencer in East Street, the second ramraid in Chichester in the last ten days (typical of Chichester that even the criminals are about ten years behind the fashions)
• An army of teenage girls handing out leaflets in North Street – but more concerned with chatting amongst themselves than actually doing what they were there to do
• The Boots cosmetics counter assistant calling to me three times before I responded (I was stood in the queue to pay and was oblivious to the fact that she was stood at a till without a queue)
• A letter from my bank telling me that I’m a very naughty boy, but not quite in such Python-esque words

I’m in a better mood this morning. Things aren’t so bad really. I just wish one or two things would click together at the moment, and preferably click together fairly quickly. Maybe they will yet.

I’m not brimming over with cheerfulness at the moment. I’ve spent the evening being injected with a massive dose of realism from various people that I love. I thank them, but it still isn’t a good thing.
Anyway, beer tonight with Paul F, Aris, Julie, Dave, DA, DAGS, Tam, Dom, Em, James, Jayne, Sacha, Ian, Tanya, Phil and Tim.

This is just about how I feel too.

All in a good cause and something I have ranted about here before.

Well, I’m glad someone has got the message.

On the subject of searches, some people come here by the most bizarre means.

Oh. My. God.
There are very few people who have seen me naked, certainly in recent years. They all have two things in common. The first is that they are all female. The second is that they were all naked at the time too.

In a shocking oversight, I’ve completely failed to report some brilliant news from a few days ago – my friends Louise and Phil have become (very proud) parents to Anna Beatrice, born on 10th October weighing in at an admirable 8lb 14oz. All three doing well, by all accounts. I’m looking forward very much to meeting the new arrival.

As someone who works with and loves plants, any effort to protect and preserve the fynbos is a good thing.