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August 12, 2007
Hello, yes, yes.
I am back from a lovely week off in Devon but it’s nice to be home. Although the location was beautiful, certain elements had me yearning for back here. These were:
A computer
Solitude
Homecooked food
My bathroom
The house I stayed in was clean enough but the shower was horrible. I would go so far as to say it was minging. Seriously.
It really mang.
It mung?
It mought.
But I did a lot of thinking and I vow – fucking vow – to watch less TV and read more. I know I say this every time I come back from holiday, but I honestly will.
Doing this means means I will write more and better of it. I even started a short story while I was away, and I haven’t written fiction in about fifteen years. This mean I will have to shelf my novel (Origins Of The Finger – A History Of The Bird) but it will be worth it.
I also learned I am not good at taking compliments, but I will write more about that tomorrow.
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Cliff, you are terrific at taking compliments. Terrific.
Right. OK, whatever – I guess.
There’s no need to be so modest, Cliff. I’m telling you, I have seen some seriously good people take some seriously big compliments in my time and I would put you in my all time top 10 compliment-takers list. If not the Top Five.
No no, seriously. Don’t shrug at me.
Sheesh.
*turns to camera*
He’s a nice guy, Cliff, but he needs to learn to accept a compliment gracefully.
We definitely need to see this episode. Grab a camera, set it up, and put it on youtube;)
you see what you did there Katy: you out-Cliffed Cliff. that was great. i mean, i’m not dissing Cliff here – he’s great, after all. one of my all time favourite favourites of all time – but damn. that was good.
When someone compliments my clothes or something like that, I’ll tell them how I bought whatever it is from Gap for £3, or something. I’m told you’re just supposed to say thank you.
I did that on the wrong one, didn’t I.
Amateurs, eh?
Sam – Don’t worry. Move on.
But now I’ve drawn attention to it, haven’t I.
You kind of have Sam. Look – new photos in the flickr gallery! (Run.)
Leave a comment. Play nice. I will turn this blog around.