February 23, 2020
My friend Martin, a long time recovering alcoholic, was telling me, during a recent recording of the podcast we run together, about how he invented aerophobia (fear of flying). Being stuck on a plane for hours is a nightmare for an alcoholic with even the most accommodating of cabin crew, so having an excuse to […]
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February 16, 2020
My supervisor, who I haven’t seen for a couple of months, asks me how I am. “I’m good,” I tell her. “Have you lost weight?” She says, wondering if the stress of eye surgery has had an impact. “Maybe, but it won’t be stress. Sometimes I forget to eat.” She raises an eyebrow and I […]
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February 9, 2020
Having booked tickets for a film I have wanted to see for a while I search for reviews and try to work out why I don’t do it the other way around. The first piece I come across gives the film one star. Emerging from the cinema later I have found it funny, touching and […]
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February 2, 2020
My car, now fifteen years old, is literally falling apart. Today, the doors won’t open at all, which is good for fuel economy but not much else. After I have spent twenty minutes with a screwdriver breaking into my own vehicle I decide to fill up the washer fluid too and then find that the […]
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January 26, 2020
I’m sorting through a basket of old cables, guitar strings and microphones looking for a jack adaptor so that my daughter can play the piano through headphones. “You don’t have to play quietly, you’re not disturbing me,” I tell her. She doesn’t hear me because she is on her phone and has her headphones in. […]
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