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14 November 2003 Entry: "season of mellow etc"

hello again. I've been meaning to do this for ages but have been hijacked by a number of things . first moving from Gateshead to Newcastle, unpacking my books yet again, finding another place to store my vintage collection of Ordinance Survey Maps ( how about the space in the bathroom, next to the toilet rolls my partner suggests helpfully) getting stressed about all things Black and Decker and to cap it all, suddenly the temperature drops. It may be only 3 miles as the crow flies but that river T is as kind as the Gulf stream to good old NE8. They were right all along its warmer down south.
about my throat...yesterday awoke at 2.15am with the feeling that someone had jabbed it with a pair of scissors, I struggled to to shake off the dream I was having about the tatooed lady then realised I was due for another lemsip. Listened to a poetry programme on the world service- 'If' requested by people in Gambia. Just hink of all those gambians pressing their ears up to the radio while skinning a pineapple and here's me with my lemsip and my duvet with lots of togs. It made me feel proud to be British for one nanosecond until I reflected that I was listening to the fagend of colonialism, otherwise known as the BBC. Still at least the trains ran on time ...and we weren't inundated with wraps and ciabattas...
I am slightly delerious apologies if I'm writing bollocks .
I'm currently fighting the passage of time ( aren't we all?) and trying to carve out more ofthe stuff to get my novel written. I'm carrying it about in my head like a half set omlette waiting to turn it out on a plate. Then it will be perfect of course, and highly entertaining. I can visualise it so well. So its as though its nearly finishes I've come such a long way with itand while its still in my head it will always be perfect, like an unborn child beautiful in its inordinate potential...Is anyone else suffering similar delusions? Must go. Mary.