Monthly Archives: October 2006

The Scaf­foldist

By Mat | Published: October 9, 2006
‘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

By Mat | Published: October 8, 2006
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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