Alphabet Month - Zat's all, folks

"Z"zzz is to sleep, perchance to dream...


Or for those who think I am copping out of the tricky letter,
Z is for zoology,
the study of the human, being.

Alphabet Month - Y

"Y"? Why not?

Alphabet Month - X

"X" is for things that we have lost.

In other ex's:
'And if the man you've grown to be's more Morrison than Morrissey
I'll tell you straight as we undress that things got better since you left
and though I've banned your name since then
I'll call it with my dying breath' - Dubstar

Alphabet Month - V & W

"V" is for ventriloquism - this V is brought to you by Tuesday 24th.

V is also for vegan - unexpected delights of vegan food are what kept me from the computer yesterday at Saf restaurant near old street. It's mostly raw food but they do such intriguing things with it you would never know. The chive caviar was a highlight as were the puddings but the real winner is the cocktail list - mmmmmm, jasmine pearl martini...
My other favourite raw and vegan discovery is Conscious Chocolate - gorgeous dark, truffly chocolate bars which are practically a health food!

"W" is for words, what else?

Alphabet Month - U

"U" are everything to me.

Songs about U:

'and if you don't love me now, you will never love me again, I can still hear you saying you will never break the chain' - fleetwood mac

'you were there dressed in green, saying something obscene. But that's why I came here in the first place. Oh well that and the tea.' - pulp

'Are you living for love? I've been under the gun, I'm lost and I've won.' - sisters of mercy

Alphabet Month - Tea

"T" is a suitable break in the afternoon of the alphabet.

Alphabet Month - R&S

"R" is for arrrrrrgh, I missed a day. Not quite sure how that happened, sorry. Although it was one of those days when I overslept and my head melted - I narrowly avoided pouring juice on my cereal and wore my watch upside down for about four hours before noticing.
To be honest, I wasn't certain of my plans for R - it might have been rampant, rampaging, rambunctious and rumbustious, or it might have been retiring. Either way, it would have been richly relevant. Or I might have succumbed to temptation and just written 'ooh R'...

By contrast, "S" is simple - it stands for serendipity, my favourite thing.

Alphabet Month - Q

"Q" is for questions, essential to disrupting the Plan.

Alphabet Month - P

"P" is for the Plan, which is necessary but not sufficient.

Alphabet Month - O

"O"

Step 1 - select:
a) ...say can you see
b)...baby, baby, how was I supposed to know
c) ...lift us up where we belong
d) ...joy

Step 2 - select:
a) !
b) ?
c) ...
d) .

Alphabet Month - N

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("N" is for nothing. Nothing matters.)

Alphabet Month - M

"M" is for the middle of Alphabet Month, which is more or less upon us.

M is also for music, what else.
It's time to play the music, it's time to light the lights,
Play that funky music, the music of the night
Music is my hot hot sex
Music to watch girls by
Thank you for the music
Without the music we would die
I'm lost in music
The music sounds better with you
Antmusic, exit music, guess that's why they call it the blues
'There may be trouble ahead
But while there's moonlight and music
And love and romance
Let's face the music and dance.'


In other music:
'Before you get sold, you get bought for a song' - Fountains of Wayne

Alphabet Month - Valentine Special

Are you in Love,
Lust,
or just
in "L"?

Alphabet Month - K

"K" keeps me guessing, it's beyond my ken.
Is it a kamikaze licence to kill?
A kaleidoscopic kiln of karma?
A knees-up knave
or a knight in shining armour?
Kiss me, K!
K is the key,
the Kyrie Eleison,
the kernel of knowledge.
K is knotty, knockabout, knuckleheaded, knurled, a knowall thrown out of college.
K is not quite Kosher.
K is not OK.
Oh, K.

Alphabet Month - J

"J"ay is to sparrow
As tank is to arrow.

J is for jaaaaaaam hot!

J is also for Jasper Maskelyne, magician, who inadvertantly and posthumously inspired my first novel.

Alphabet Month - I

"I" will lift up mine eyes unto the hills,
from whence cometh my strength.


(disclaimer: this is not a religious message. I just like hills.)

Alphabet Month - H

"H" is to have and to hold.

Alphabet Month - G

"G" is for the Great North Wood,
which is still here if you look hard enough.

Alphabet Month - F

"F" is for the Facts,
which sometimes aren't.

Alphabet Month - E

"E"rrrrr......


(to err is human)

Alphabet Month - D

"D" is for the diverse delirium of Doubt, from doubt-full (doomed to dyspeptic dithering) to doubt-less (distinctly damnably dictatorial).

Alphabet Month - C

"C" what I did with B, there? I'll stop it. Promise. For now.

C is for the not-quite-circular cycles of chance and change
Also for chocolate, which is much more important.

Come up and C me sometime (that wasn't me - it's a quote...)

Alphabet Month - B

"B" gentle, reader, it's my first time.

In other B's:

'He believes in beauty, he's Venus as a boy' Bjork

'If the apocalypse comes - beep me' Buffy the Vampire Slayer

Alphabet Month

26 days left of February? Must be Alphabet Month. Please do join in with your own suggestions in the comments. I'll try to do this every day unless I really can't get to the internet, in which case there may be the odd two-letter day:


"A" is for anthropology,
The study of the human, being.

Snow snow snow snow snow

So, this work thing really takes it out of a girl. But thanks to the snow, I have a longer weekend in which to reflect on the positive aspects of my career. There is undeniably a satisfying sense of competence about work which can be all too elusive in the writing. I don't particularly enjoy being sent to Glasgow at short notice, or having to stay late to finish things, but it does make one feel wanted. My colleagues are (for the most part) as lovely as I remember. Also, lets be honest, it is very nice to see my bank balance halt its relentless downward slide. I have celebrated solvency with a self-gift of a beautiful silver pen - by way of reminder not to stop writing. So far, so good - still making reasonable progress on the corrections to novel no.1 and finished another short story the other day, although I have decided to let various competition deadlines slide without my input.

Snow = being at home, ought to = productivity, but snow engenders that 'being off school' feeling which prevents any substantial activity. So I went to the park and took pictures of the happy sledging people, and felt good about it.