‘You’re running out of things to say,’ John remarks. ‘Yeah,’ I agree. It’s a first for me. For a moment we are stunned into silence. I think it is because life has simplified itself down to just necessities. I think in single syllables now. Beach. Book. Beer. Mango. Oh wait. That last one is two …
Today in money. 7p bottle of filtered water £1.50 fruit salad and granola & honey, lemon and ginger tea 12p 3 x samosas 66p autorickshaw £6 hour long spa pedicure (totally necessary ok) £1.05 two sweet lime waters 66p autorickshaw 5p loo roll £1.30 vodka & tonic £1 chocolate mousse fudge tart £3 salad and …
Fois, fois, fois… hmmmm I know that. I know that one… No. It’s gone. Agneau… I know this one. ‘That’s lamb…’ I say with the confidence of someone who got an A* for GCSE French back in 1994. ‘Ok,great, great,’ the American says, peeling his menu out of my hands, ‘I’ll go with the lamb.’ …
‘I want a magazine!’ She demands as soon as we swish through the doors of Sainsburys. I push on past the cbeebies magazines with their cellophaned child magnet landfill toys. ‘I want a lemon,’ she says next pointing at the melons. ‘I want moreganix!,’ she says whilst trying to grab six pink packets of Organix in her arms as …
I am crossing Hungerford Bridge with my best friend Nichola. We are intellectually critiquing a film we have just seen. ‘He is seriously buff.’ ‘Yes seriously. I think though it might be illegal in some parts of America for us to fancy him.’ We are locked into a discussion on the finer details of Jacob’s twelve pack …
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