Monthly Archives: December 2005

We had an early slot booked to go skating at Hampton Court. (see photos (none of us I’m afraid, no cameras on the ice)). I don’t know what Henry the VIII would have thought of it, but he wasn’t around … Continue reading →

I was feeling jaded when I went out tonight. Too many elbows in the ribs from frustrated Christmas shoppers, too much traffic, too many advertisements. I was being good tonight, and taking my mother on a Christmas outing to a small … Continue reading →

Very quiet. The house is still. Somewhere outside everything is waiting. The dark, the long wet street, the high black emptiness that is the sky, which goes on forever.   When I was a child I would sometimes lie awake … Continue reading →

‘It’s a long way down,’  he said, ‘It’s a really looong way down’   We were sitting on the parapet of a flyover, cars behind us, cars below, a huge circular sky above playing confetti with raindrops, and as I … Continue reading →