up at 4.30 having gone to sleep before nine
belle and noé are asleep
sent an awful haiku about homegrown and wine to renée
police inspector gadget we are the proud owners of a ruralshire constabulary t shirt
richard dawkins answers questions from reddit
noé will read the selfish gene as soon as i can find it
i have been attempting to watch the leonard cohen documentary bird on a wire on the iplayer with an intermittent internet - a fantastic scene of a woman coming on to him and i'm only twenty minutes in. apparently people cry at the end. in the film i mean
christ almighty! at 42 minutes there is extensive footage of general nguyen ngoc loan shooting a vietcong suspect in the head
and just an hour earlier i was reading an article about headshots in movies which referenced the same shooting in the vietnam war as near the beginning of such graphic shots in films
violence off the screen is infinitely more effective
vented at noé and belle about the fairness of who does the washing up. a conversation i intend to have only once more in a civil manner with all three children present
belle has promised to read paul mitchell's cloud atlas and birdsong by sebastian faulks as her next two fiction books as i do not influence her education in any other way
