Monthly Archives: October 2006

The Scaf­foldist

The thing is,’ says Oscar, drain­ing his cof­fee, ‘is that the Brit­ish one pound coin is very thick, and around the edge it has some­thing writ­ten in Latin.’

Right,’ I say.

Or Welsh.’ He orders another latte. ‘One of those two. Which is the one with lots of ‘w’s?’

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Tomor­row and tomor­row and whenever

Out­side the win­dow, through the girlie grey steam, the autumn weeds are wav­ing in a dis­tinctly spring­ish wind. I think I could almost qual­ify as a per­petual motion machine, infin­itely run­ning a dis­trac­ted loop between the unten­ded garden and the unten­ded com­puter, if it weren’t for the mid­point between the two, which is the tele­vi­sion and which is being ten­ded just fine.

I stopped doing cre­at­ive things three months ago. What happened?

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