http://www.out-of-ideas.com Just another WordPress weblog Wed, 02 Jul 2008 16:16:52 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Let us say we have two cups and a bucket. Let us also say we are the world's dorkiest waitress and that we have such a raging passion for a particular tea-tray that we always wish to carry it with us. Let us say the bucket and the cups are ... http://www.out-of-ideas.com/2008/01/28/two-cups-one-bucket-a-tea-tray-and-a-dork/ January Daylight Is cold one day in five, is wet, Is kept awake by gales, Is astonishingly still by dawn. Is grey as a tupperware box, is clear, Is an arctic glass-cold summer, Is thick with salty water, Is shrunken, swallowed in dark, is brief, Is seen through windows only, Is gone, with an escort of street-lamps. That's your lot ... http://www.out-of-ideas.com/2008/01/25/still-here-still-busy/ I can either post here regularly, or, I can do my course-work. Course-work wins. Arse. http://www.out-of-ideas.com/2008/01/24/apologia-pro-vita-sua/ (Photo courtesy of Ramson) At dawn of day the apple-thief Comes dancing in her leitmotif, Slotting each foot in a previous slot Made yesterday in the orchard plot, Returns again to where left off she - The leafless, branch-bent apple-tree - And among the windfalls idly browses Safe from guns so near the houses. So dainty-legged, her sister-beast, Reducing apples ... http://www.out-of-ideas.com/2008/01/11/the-apple-thief/ The redoubtable Litlove has actually been reading The Times, and lookie here, but they listed a top 50 of British Writers since 1945. Litlove has some very good points along the lines of 'who chose these and where the hell is everyone else who should be in here?', and I ... http://www.out-of-ideas.com/2008/01/09/i-didnt-realise-we-even-had-50-only-had-50-both/ Dearest Readers, all best wishes for a thoroughly charming 2008. And hello! First post of the year! Only four days late! Posting on the first of January was naturally out of the question, as I only got home from my parent's residence [not a typo, just the one parent at said ... http://www.out-of-ideas.com/2008/01/04/new-year-at-last/ It is, indeed, Christmas Eve. I have been watching A Christmas Carol (Patrick Stewart!) on the telly this evening, and to my increasing horror, weeping helplessly as it all got more and more sentimental and, by the time Tiny Tim died [Or, did not die. Or is going to would ... http://www.out-of-ideas.com/2007/12/24/a-christmas-swanee-kazoo/ [Written at work today, while waiting for Microsoft Word to stop crashing and let Reed actually do some, funnily enough, work, and after a morning completely wasted on Christmas shopping - Ed.] No snow, no frost, again this year, No ice nor sleet nor hail; The south-west wind brings in the rain, The rain ... http://www.out-of-ideas.com/2007/12/19/this-christmas/ I seem to have spent a week with my head up my bottom with regards to this blog. This is not good for the neck. http://www.out-of-ideas.com/2007/12/16/could-do-better/ Three coursework deadlines all at once. Which is mean. Nothing a coffee-fuelled all-nighter, or two, can't solve. It's not like I have to be coherent and speakable and at work the next morning or anything. No, wait, that was when I was 20. Damn it. http://www.out-of-ideas.com/2007/12/09/she-cant-come-out-to-play-shes-doing-her-homework/