absurdists

Ingrid Luyks said I should check out Kharms and Vvedensky, Russian absurdists

I used part of a lamp to cut out a circle of white bread as part of the process of making breakfast

A free range egg was fried in the hole

fire in the hold

the joy of text

inside out jumper and cream that did not freeze

i wore a jumper inside out yesterday.
Should i convince myself it was, at an unconscious level, deliberate, a bold
iconoclastic act?

no

A carton of cream leaked into my army bag. i left it outside and this morning the bag looked to have been frozen overnight, but..
the cream was still still sticky wet and shiny in the morn

rather beautiful and creamy

I'll hose it clean like Hercules, later

dubbel trippel

I'm bored of pils. I'm increasingly drawn to dubbel trappist beer.

A student of mine referred to someone who likes beer as a fan of the fluid.

ostriches and istanbul

Now, I am assuming that ostriches are farmed in a reasonably humane way. The meat is delicious. It's my new thing, and there's a recipe in "I hate hagelslag".

I just thought of Istanbul.

There's a smoky puddle in the alleyway.

Burgerij

The way Jacques Brel sings "Ik.." in his song "Burgerij" is great, the greatest 'ik' ever. Period.

en ikk...de ssuper arrroggganttt

Period?
Yeah, period.

vette burger clique
vette vieze varkens....

Go'a light mate?

10 or 11 years ago I was walking home up St Julian's Farm Road in West Norwood, south London. A bloke approached me and asked, in a strong south London accent'

"You wouldn't by any chance have a light would you?"

I would have expected him to ask, "Got a light mate."

I don't recall what I said to him. Maybe I said, "Nah mate, sorry" but I guess it was probably something like "I'm afraid I don't." More in line with his diction.

Reading aloud for taping purposes

I read poems for Mr Stovers yesterday. Most of it was in iambic tetrameter. It got slightly tedious hammering through the light verse, but there were a few more weighty gems among them (Hughes, Siegfried Sassoon).

I'm not a huge fan of strict rhyme schemes in poetry but I do like them in nursery rhymes.

He's a nice old fellow and pretty alert for 81