The glass and steel monolith from which I survey the cashmere-swathed denizens of SW3 is served by a bank of lifts, and of the lifts, there is only one to whom I am faithful: whose “ping” of arrival I long for above all the others – the secret lift. The secret lift is not like [...]
Archive for March, 2009
My Favourite Lift
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Lift, Work on March 31, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Internet Joy
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Fiona Shaw, Internet, Shakespeare, Wife on March 31, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
In the last ten days, the Internet has given me the following presents:- A T-Shirt (for Best Friend) emblazoned with the slogan “I LOVE MY VAGINA” (originally from Lesbian Pride – so there it is as a bold declamation, untempered by anything such as ironic, Clerkenwell-lite typography. A copy of “Shakespeare’s Ambiguity” – a masterly [...]
First Lesson: Double Irony
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Family, Photography, Rage, Wife on March 29, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Wife has had one of her photographs selected for a massive photographic exhibition, and so has high-tailed it up to Derby where the event takes place for the next six weeks (although she has gone only for three days…). So while she is trading stories of the wrong lens and over-long exposure with fellow exhibitors [...]
Angry and Disappointed
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Advertising, Advertising Agency, Enthusiastic Account Guy, Favourite Client, Woody Allen in Robert de Niro's Body Creative Director on March 21, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Friday saw me fuming at Woody Allen in Robert de Niro’s Body Creative Director, but falling short of the full shouty-crackers, as he has the resilience and maturity of Daughter, and I saw no point in entering the weekend in a really bad mood. Essentially, he didn’t show up for work all week (two days [...]
Archimedes’ Living Arrangements
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Archimedes, Eldest Son, Family on March 16, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Eldest Son had to write about “a famous scientist” for school on the weekend. Grimly aware that the teachers would be subjected to any number of “Sir Isaac Newton and the Apple” stories from the assembled 6 year-olds, I took him through the story of Archimedes, the golden crown, Eureka etc… It was when he [...]
“Grand Designs” and Manolo Blahniks
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Grand Designs, Kevin McCloud, Sex and the City on March 7, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
I’m watching “Grand Designs” – and trying to work out what it is really about. It’s a remarkable programme in terms of its demographic appeal: it’s almost entirely middle class, middle age males, with a particular bias towards the creative industries in terms of its viewership – and part of me wonders why. On the [...]
“Crime and Punishment”
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged amazon, Crime and Punishment, Waterstone's on March 3, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
I was in Waterstone’s this lunchtime, looking for books to order on amazon. I stood in front of the “Our Staff Recommends” section, and noticed that someone had recommended “Crime and Punishment” – keen to see what the recommendation amounted to, I looked down at the card whereon the staff member had written his appreciation: [...]
