Still feeling far from home.

For a long while now, I used to believe I was allowing myself to fall along the wayside in terms of my obsession with documenting and archiving my life - and used to feel the lesser for it.

When I was younger, I suppose this personal eye I'd kept constantly trained on myself was my closest companion. Things I did and thoughts I thought would be ( Read more... )

The empty cocoon of a cradling Sunday afternoon - bright with blue, a cradle for the weary man.

Spring is a flirtatious lil' bitch, and as much as I hate that sort of behaviour, I simply cannot resist - not even on principle.

This time of the year, the heart is full of nest-building and robin blue eggs and soft furry turnings and hope.

Planting rice ( Read more... )

Yay, new pic up on Poison Pen Comics!

Well pleased.

Also, my new food blog The Impertinent Pea!

Have to just get some crappy entry in here before I allow myself to get too used to not updating this site ( Read more... )

Two amazing movies in the space of a week. The haunting of a truly honest movie will stay with you like an indelible stain, and thank God for that. Reviews to come!

Breathless (Ddongpari)

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Far North

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Dear Pearlyn,

Thank you so much for coming in to see Tyler - he really enjoyed meeting you. Unfortunately he has decided to offer the position to one of the other applicants. I’m sorry to inform you of this news and just want to emphasize that he thought you were a top-class candidate and came a very close second.

We are in the process of re- ( Read more... )

I realise I only resort to completely trite-ness only when I want something so badly, I don't know what else there is to do. Consult a witch doctor or a crystal ball - or more conveniently, check out Susan Miller's monthly forecasts on Astrologyzone.com.

Indeed, she has been known to be shockingly off-kilter, but she has also been creepily spot-on ( Read more... )

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