November 2009
1 post
Relocate
Tumblr has been an adequate interim solution, but I’ve moved on - as threatened - to a grown-up blog.
http://hypotemuse.com/
I hope you’ll come too; to keep me company and delight me with your perceptiveness, wisdom and friendship.
Imogene xxx
October 2009
4 posts
Red alert
Fell asleep to an owl crying like an audible beacon through inky-black silence. Woke up at 2.15am to a nauseating stench violating the stillness. Sat up straight in bed, switched on the bedside lamp for fear of treading in a pool of cat wee or a dismembered rotting creature and followed my nose into the hall, into the bathroom, back into the hall, through to the kitchen. Searched for telltale...
Polanski polarises
Firstly, I’d like to thank Swiss TV news for not featuring him last night: yesterday’s lead story was on next year’s health insurance premium hike, an autumn perennial. And then there were natural catastrophes in far-flung places to leaven the mood a bit.
Secondly, I think this is the lamest piece I’ve ever written. Truly. I mean it.
The Facts, and you’ll already know about this unless you live...
September 2009
8 posts
Buy the shoe and we'll throw in the girl...
I was going to tell you about my attitude towards footwear. The LDR wears expensive running shoes. He needs the most expensive running shoes known to mankind because he needs support: he is, after all, an LDR. With the physique of a decathlete. And he runs a lot – he’s the man who can outrun his own… no… that would be unkind. I do not begrudge him the shoes - running makes him happy. He easily...
Hypochondriac's daughter
I have a diagnosis. It wasn’t the one I was expecting – Coeliac disease cannot be detected in the blood in the absence of around six weeks’ worth of gluten in the diet. There is NO WAY I am reintroducing wheat products for six weeks to obtain a positive test result (so I already know, don’t I?) Bread, pastry, pasta are POISON, although I do indulge once in a while to inflict the short sharp shock...
Gordian Knot
I feel I owe you an explanation.
After a conversation with a friend who I feel knows me a little too well for my own good, if that makes sense, I’ve decided to settle in here while I make up my mind about What To Do (come on: this is seminal, life-changing stuff!). I think that sooner or later, I shall start writing again on a proper, grown-up blog. For the time being, though, I’ve lowered the...
