Too Much To Declare

• agenda for the day From alecweston ^Pro in Too Much To Declare (4 minutes old)

  Today I will re-invent the wheel. Again.… more

• Some of my friends... From alecweston ^Pro in Too Much To Declare (7 hours old)

  ... think I am an orthopedic surgeon. "I make a point," I tell them if the subject comes up, "never to operate on anyone I know."… more

• Love, Like From alecweston ^Pro in Too Much To Declare (10 hours old)

  Is it possible to love someone, but not like them very much at all?… more

• Solving the Gordon Brown Problem From alecweston ^Pro in Too Much To Declare (12 hours old)

  Gordon Brown has many dreadful things since he became Prime Minister - and, less we forget, before, when he was Tony Blair Chabcellor of the Exchequer. But writing a partly illegible letter and mis… more

• novel lack From alecweston ^Pro in Too Much To Declare (1 day old)

  For only the seond time this year, I find I have no unread novel to read. How can I fall asleep? How can I guide my dreams, my life awake with no characters to live through, no invented world to inh… more

• CHURLISH to ignore From alecweston ^Pro in Too Much To Declare (1 day old)

  While you have been looking the other way (judging by the abysmal pageview figures, lol) I have launched, on my second blog, a new Private Investigator eries , starring Peter Churlish, with 5 episodes… more

• Berlin, Madrid From alecweston ^Pro in Too Much To Declare (1 day old)

  Twenty years ago I was in a hotel lobby, watching in awe as the wall come down, on television. Watching history. It was about a year later that some fool called it the end of history.… more

• Is it something in the water? From alecweston ^Pro in Too Much To Declare (1 day old)

  Several of my favourite bloggers are not blogging much at the moment. If at all. What's (not) going on? Maybe I shall join them in their absence.… more

• Press Complaints Commission From alecweston ^Pro in Too Much To Declare (1 day old)

  PCC: Are you guilty? Journalist: No. PCC: Are you guilty? Editor: No. So there you have it. We find both parties innocent. Long live the Free Press! Long live Self-Regulation! … more

• flat spin From alecweston ^Pro in Too Much To Declare (2 days old)

  Maybe if I write it down here it will go away. As soon as I put the light out to sleep, I fell into a blind, short breath, panic - fear of dying (specifically drowning), claustopobia, abandonment,… more

• Trivial Announcement From alecweston ^Pro in Too Much To Declare (2 days old)

  I am not having my head shaved.… more

• That was then From alecweston ^Pro in Too Much To Declare (2 days old)

  As so often, my Sunday depression evaporates into the evening air. What was that all about? Want to rush to finish the novel I'm reading, though. I will be murdering the main character if he does… more

• Sunday Depression From alecweston ^Pro in Too Much To Declare (2 days old)

  That full-on Reproach that beats me up from the inside. Beats too fast by the heart. Not false consciouness - but False Conscience, deep guilt for non existent crimes. Daddy's little enforcer, … more

• Home is where... From alecweston ^Pro in Too Much To Declare (3 days old)

  It struck me this evening, coming up the hill in the rain from a meal in my friendly French cafe, a present to myself after a long day at my mother's... it struck that, after more than 20 months livin… more

• are we alone? From alecweston ^Pro in Too Much To Declare (4 days old)

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• The joy of a woman's passive smoke From alecweston ^Pro in Too Much To Declare (4 days old)

  I have never smoked a straight cigarette in my life. (And I gave up smoking anything more interesting eighteen months ago.) As I've made clear on this blog, sometimes quite pompously, I hate stran… more

• A Fly for Europe? From alecweston ^Pro in Too Much To Declare (4 days old)

  Following the demise of Tony Blair's chances of becoming President of Europe (the job is not so glamorous or powerful that the title may sound), it looks as if they may job may go to Herman von Rompuy… more

• They have started drilling again From alecweston ^Pro in Too Much To Declare (4 days old)

  one of my back teeth in the basement next to my bedroom (I live on a hill)… more

• A Nightmare. From alecweston ^Pro in Too Much To Declare (4 days old)

  I had a nightmare. Don't want to want to tell you about it.… more

• Different shades of Blues From alecweston ^Pro in Too Much To Declare (5 days old)

  I have been feeling so much fear these last few nights - once in the form of financial panic, another time the fear of letting go of the familiar, another time terror of death (a nightmare of drowning… more

• Dog on Bus From alecweston ^Pro in Too Much To Declare (5 days old)

  Bus stops. Dog ambles on and down the aisle. A determined amble. Pad, pad, pad, pad. "It doesn't belong to anybody!" someone exclaims. It looks quite dignified. Smooth skinned non-barking mongrel,… more

• Missing From alecweston ^Pro in Too Much To Declare (6 days old)

  I miss you. Your presence can be enfuriating, too, but I can engage with that. Besides, your absence isn't fun.… more

• Words can never hurt you From alecweston ^Pro in Too Much To Declare (6 days old)

  Scoundrel. I love the sound of the word. I would have liked to have been a scoundrel at least once in my life, but I think the concept is a but too Terry-Thomas for me. In my thirties, I thought… more

• A tall neck story From alecweston ^Pro in Too Much To Declare (6 days old)

  Anyway there were these two ostriches, A and B. Of course I could give them cuddly names, but that would be a wee bit anthropomorphic, don't you think? And, as far as I know, nobody has an ostrich… more

• So, Goodbye "Featured Blog" page From alecweston ^Pro in Too Much To Declare (6 days old)

  Or not? Will we be told? Can't say I wil be sorry - the algorithm chosing them seemed to be so perverse. It niether tracked the blogs more the most visitors (check any internet analytics site and… more

• Tags that are lost forever From alecweston ^Pro in Too Much To Declare (6 days old)

  Hello alecweston, in order to use your tags to improve the searchability of your blog posts, it has been necessary to make a few changes to the tag system. (Blah, blah - most BCUK bloggers amy … more

• It's not fair! From alecweston ^Pro in Too Much To Declare (6 days old)

  But if everything in the world were fair, we would all be living just above the poverty line.… more

• Tell me something I don't know From alecweston ^Pro in Too Much To Declare (7 days old)

  please… more

• the key to a succesful blog From alecweston ^Pro in Too Much To Declare (7 days old)

  What do you think the key is? A new young blogger has asked for my advice. How would I know? Considering the overall high quality of Too Much to Declare (sarky, negative comments will be deleted :>… more

• All's for the best, in the best... From alecweston ^Pro in Too Much To Declare (7 days old)

  of all possible worlds. Well, not quite, but after assembling all the necessary info about gas meter numbers, empty flats in building etc (and locking myself out in the process, price of locksmith £… more

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