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Another sort of dream From alecweston ^Pro in Too Much To Declare (47 minutes old)

"You are just not a team player, Carruthers, that's your trouble. We need kindling, man! Now the flames are up, your right leg will burn a hell of a lot better than your left leg did. All you have t… more

CHURLISH P.I./part 7 : The end of the beginning From alecweston ^Pro in Where the Rainbow Begins (1 hour old)

"Well, I'm going hanggliding" Lady Churlish announced, no doubt ironically, getting into the back of a chauffeur driven Alvis. "Do you mind house-sitting?" She didn't wait for an answer. It took … more

A sort of dream From alecweston ^Pro in Too Much To Declare (4 hours old)

It was being held in the Silvio Clarksonian, an airfield in the middle of Rome. The main fight, to the death. Two ageing men. Alex Ferguson and Rupert Murdoch. And, although I'm no ManU suppor… more

all in a day's non work From alecweston ^Pro in Too Much To Declare (6 hours old)

My gaselectrico, accepting there has been a gas meter muddle up, asks me for an up to date meter reading. Find special key for meter box - check. Remember to take front door key (last time I locke… more

Some of my best friends... From alecweston ^Pro in Too Much To Declare (22 hours old)

think I must be up to something, because they haven't heard from me for so long. In fact, they haven't heard from me for so long because I want to be up to something before I get in retouch.… more

Edit your tags! From alecweston ^Pro in Too Much To Declare (1 day old)

Eat you greens!… more

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CHURLISH P.I./part 6: Charlies's Mum From alecweston ^Pro in Where the Rainbow Begins (1 day old)

For new readers who are not inclined to read the first five parts: Charlie (aka) Peter Churlish needs to find and shop his brother for drugdealing - in order to avoid police harrasment. Beth, Charli… more

agenda for the day From alecweston ^Pro in Too Much To Declare (1 day old)

Today I will re-invent the wheel. Again.… more

Some of my friends... From alecweston ^Pro in Too Much To Declare (1 day old)

... think I am an orthopedic surgeon. "I make a point," I tell them if the subject comes up, "never to operate on anyone I know."… more

Love, Like From alecweston ^Pro in Too Much To Declare (2 days old)

Is it possible to love someone, but not like them very much at all?… more

Solving the Gordon Brown Problem From alecweston ^Pro in Too Much To Declare (2 days old)

Gordon Brown has many dreadful things since he became Prime Minister - and, less we forget, before, when he was Tony Blair Chabcellor of the Exchequer. But writing a partly illegible letter and mis… more

novel lack From alecweston ^Pro in Too Much To Declare (2 days old)

For only the seond time this year, I find I have no unread novel to read. How can I fall asleep? How can I guide my dreams, my life awake with no characters to live through, no invented world to inh… more

CHURLISH to ignore From alecweston ^Pro in Too Much To Declare (2 days old)

While you have been looking the other way (judging by the abysmal pageview figures, lol) I have launched, on my second blog, a new Private Investigator eries , starring Peter Churlish, with 5 episodes… more

CHURLISH P.I./part 5: The Plot Thins From alecweston ^Pro in Where the Rainbow Begins (2 days old)

The story so far: Peter Churlish needs to track down his supposedly drug-dealer brother Geoffrey and betray him to the police so Peter doesn't get get flung in jail himself on trumped up charges, whic… more

Berlin, Madrid From alecweston ^Pro in Too Much To Declare (3 days old)

Twenty years ago I was in a hotel lobby, watching in awe as the wall come down, on television. Watching history. It was about a year later that some fool called it the end of history.… more

Is it something in the water? From alecweston ^Pro in Too Much To Declare (3 days old)

Several of my favourite bloggers are not blogging much at the moment. If at all. What's (not) going on? Maybe I shall join them in their absence.… more

Press Complaints Commission From alecweston ^Pro in Too Much To Declare (3 days old)

PCC: Are you guilty? Journalist: No. PCC: Are you guilty? Editor: No. So there you have it. We find both parties innocent. Long live the Free Press! Long live Self-Regulation! … more

flat spin From alecweston ^Pro in Too Much To Declare (3 days old)

Maybe if I write it down here it will go away. As soon as I put the light out to sleep, I fell into a blind, short breath, panic - fear of dying (specifically drowning), claustopobia, abandonment,… more

Trivial Announcement From alecweston ^Pro in Too Much To Declare (3 days old)

I am not having my head shaved.… more

CHURLISH PI/part 4: The Police Raid From alecweston ^Pro in Where the Rainbow Begins (3 days old)

A policeman treads on our hero's big toe as he rushes past towards crowd standing round the bar. Before he can say "ow" another police, with very large feet, storms pass, stamping on the whole of his… more

That was then From alecweston ^Pro in Too Much To Declare (4 days old)

As so often, my Sunday depression evaporates into the evening air. What was that all about? Want to rush to finish the novel I'm reading, though. I will be murdering the main character if he does… more

CHURLISH PI/part 3 From alecweston ^Pro in Where the Rainbow Begins (4 days old)

"Cheryl-Chiswick + murder "already has 231,000 google entries, most of them mistakes. "A Halloween Prank Gone Horribly Wrong?" asks one newspaper about an entirely unrelated murder in Preston Lancs, … more

Sunday Depression From alecweston ^Pro in Too Much To Declare (4 days old)

That full-on Reproach that beats me up from the inside. Beats too fast by the heart. Not false consciouness - but False Conscience, deep guilt for non existent crimes. Daddy's little enforcer, … more

CHURLISH PI/part 2 From alecweston ^Pro in Where the Rainbow Begins (4 days old)

He can't bear it any longer. Abruptly he starts hacking at the bits that stick out with a pair of culed nail scissors. "Good luck with the rest of your life," she shouts up the stairs. "You'll ne… more

Home is where... From alecweston ^Pro in Too Much To Declare (4 days old)

It struck me this evening, coming up the hill in the rain from a meal in my friendly French cafe, a present to myself after a long day at my mother's... it struck that, after more than 20 months livin… more

CHURLISH From alecweston ^Pro in Where the Rainbow Begins (5 days old)

Today's word is CHURLISH. Not every day has a word. Saturday 7th November should count itself lucky. A star is born. Peter Churlish, Private Investigator. He has a brother Geoffrey. And … more

are we alone? From alecweston ^Pro in Too Much To Declare (5 days old)

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The joy of a woman's passive smoke From alecweston ^Pro in Too Much To Declare (6 days old)

I have never smoked a straight cigarette in my life. (And I gave up smoking anything more interesting eighteen months ago.) As I've made clear on this blog, sometimes quite pompously, I hate stran… more

A Fly for Europe? From alecweston ^Pro in Too Much To Declare (6 days old)

Following the demise of Tony Blair's chances of becoming President of Europe (the job is not so glamorous or powerful that the title may sound), it looks as if they may job may go to Herman von Rompuy… more