Monthly Archives: March 2007

Great Un-taken Photographs – No.4

This morning in Manor Lane, Lewisham. White van emblazoned with the ‘Geographers A-Z Map Company’ logo. Driver parked at angle on side of road, utterly lost, consulting huge A-Z road atlas.

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Life on Mars (2)

For the last few days I’ve been wandering around in a bit of a daze, feeling as if everything was a long way off. As if I were in an episode of Life on Mars and would wake up in … Continue reading

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I Have Measured My Life In Server Rooms

There we are, title for a slim volume of terse verse about working with computers. By the T.S.Eliot of the IT Crowd. I mean, he worked in Lloyds Bank for heaven’s sake…

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Get down on your knees

Both exmonkey and I have noticed this: our jeans used to wear out at the crotch and now they wear out at the knees. Changing nappies, you see. Cyril Connolly is supposed to have said ‘the pram in the hallway … Continue reading

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