Moving on

Officially (on paper)

this is my first day for twenty

years that I am not employed by the

BBC

I woke with an urge to say something

about the BBC that I wouldn't have

been able to say yesterday

but sat here I can't think of a single thing

Alan Bennett

A while back

I entered an Alan Bennett competition

I just had to write two questions I would

to ask him

I won

The questions were:

Given the chance, are there any parts of your life you would re-write?

and

Is laughter the best medicine?

His answers were:

My boyhood is quite painful to contemplate

and

It never did me any harm

In addition to the answers - in his own handwriting

I have a copy of his latest book

A Life Like Other People's

Change

Summer raced out last night
the rain
washing away the vibrant
green from the leaves

Autumn is here
the wind
has changed
and nothing will ever be the
same

Ho hum

They say that the grass is greener

on the other side of the fence

well I'm on the other side of the fence now

and guess what

I left my camera on the other side of the fence

so I'm going to have to go back to that side

and get it

as for the grass

meh

Leaning on a laptop

The morning after the ukulele concert the night before

and to think that this time yesterday

I couldn't even spell ukulele

All was not lost

Not having the Guardian Quick Crossword

at the breakfast table

this morning

did allow me to put

my mind to other things

I finally solved a problem

like Maria

If God had wanted us to enjoy Mondays he wouldn't have given us weekends

I think I insulted the guy on the phone from the bank

when I suggested that my card may

have been blocked was because I'd been to Scotland

"I hardly think that would be a reason," he said

in a very broad Scott's accent

What I meant was that you may have noticed some unusual

spending patterns...

too late, he'd already taken the huff and passed me on to

some English woman who insisted on call me Mr Friar

oh and lost my other credit card - which is where all the trouble began

and the car's not working properly

and I've no cider

and