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Oct. 21st, 2005 04:14 pmThe trouble with not having written anything for a while is that I seem to be stuck between writing everything or writing nothing. Do I mention work, how I'm feeling at the moment, my holidays, the band in that pub in Wales where I got chatted up by a cheery but very persistent and very definitely not sober seventy-year-old bloke and eventually had to retreat to the pub in the next village before the wives of his friends and neighbours launched a rescue, swimming in the sea in Devon, what I've been reading, what I've been cooking, the saga of my Dad's birthday tie, etc., or do I just start from here? I'll start with now, anyway, or I'll never get started at all. I might add bits of the rest here and there.
I looked up from my book on the train the other day to see why we were slowing down unexpectedly and saw that a virginia creeper had grown up the side of the cutting just opposite my window. It's a deep cutting and the leaves were so dense that you couldn't see anything between them. Without warning, the grass, rocks and scrubby bushes give way to a wide fall of oranges and yellows and reds.
You know that type of advertising where a completely irrelevant but eye-catching word is printed in large type while underneath the advert continues: ...now we've got your attention, come to our meeting/buy our product/whatever? I came across a new version of that today. In a hairdressers there was a notice printed in black and white on ordinary A4 paper stuck to the window. It read: "CEX! Now we've got your attention... 30% discount for Academics." Presumably they reasoned that those academics who wouldn't be interested by sex would instead be rivetted by the spelling mistake.
I looked up from my book on the train the other day to see why we were slowing down unexpectedly and saw that a virginia creeper had grown up the side of the cutting just opposite my window. It's a deep cutting and the leaves were so dense that you couldn't see anything between them. Without warning, the grass, rocks and scrubby bushes give way to a wide fall of oranges and yellows and reds.
You know that type of advertising where a completely irrelevant but eye-catching word is printed in large type while underneath the advert continues: ...now we've got your attention, come to our meeting/buy our product/whatever? I came across a new version of that today. In a hairdressers there was a notice printed in black and white on ordinary A4 paper stuck to the window. It read: "CEX! Now we've got your attention... 30% discount for Academics." Presumably they reasoned that those academics who wouldn't be interested by sex would instead be rivetted by the spelling mistake.
