The Spoons That Are My Ears!

My sweetpea has gone away to India. It's damn lonely without her and I can't wait to join her there.

I've started cycling again -- on a bicycle belonging to the Danish girlfriend of Frictionless Man frontman, Stuart Ross. There are two words on the side of the bicycle: (a) Conan, (b) Saxon. That says something about Danish girls, perhaps...

I've started writing a new collection of linked stories that have absolutely nothing to do with fantasy. They are completely straight, realistic stories based on my own experiences. This is something I've wanted to do for a long time. I don't yet know how many stories will be in the collection, but the individual pieces are all going to be quite short. The probable title for the finished collection will be My Cholesterol Socks. The stories I'm working on at the moment have titles like 'Betrayal', 'Explosion', 'The Homemade Hookah', 'Errata of our Quiet Desperation', 'Suicide: a Beginner's Guide' and the title story, 'Bless my Cholesterol Socks'...