Susie and I are spending the weekend at the kitchen table, working on on our matching MacBooks.


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Life is so amazing lately that I'm starting to suspect that it's some sort of Truman Show-style reality programming to cheer us all up and distract us from the credit crunch.

1. I just got the £1,500 Gillian Purvis Award for New Writing, which I'm going to use to launch a new literary magazine with my friend.

2. I was a runner-up for the Glass ( Read more... )

I'm off to Tokyo - see you in two weeks!

Things I Saw On The Pavement Today

a 'nine of hearts' playing card

an empty M&S victoria sponge cake box

a smashed bottle of vodka

half a Gavin & Stacy DVD (the other half was on the other side of the road)

You know how sometimes people on your friends list post about stuff going on in their life, and all of a sudden you think "Wait a minute? Since when are they working THERE? Since when are they dating HIM/HER? since when?" And then you wonder how you could have missed all that seemingly pretty standard information, but somehow you feel too ashamed ( Read more... )

CLEAR YOUR CALENDAR FOR NEXT WEEK!

Actually don't, unless you live in Glasgow and are interested in writing and see something you like at the Words 2008 exhibitionIf nothing else you should go to the panel discussion at 6.30PM on Thursday the 11th - the whisky tasting beforehand will guarantee some intellectual (and maybe not so intellectual) ( Read more... )

Goodbye, friends! I'm off to Berlin, be back for the weekend.

If you were to start all over again with no possessions, absolutely nothing, what would you do differently ( Read more... )

Some things I am interested in lately:


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I realised today that I only ever post odd little stories or random things like 'I stepped on a plug' or 'I forgot to go to the dentist', and I'm not sure if that's how you really get to know what a person is like. Or maybe it is. I've always believed that the little things are vital - more important than the big things, sometimes ( Read more... )