Gledwood Vol 2 (Main blog)

OUI oui, ou la la as they say in France I'm a real rosbif (as the Frogs call us). I was wondering why the steak hardly went anywhere la...

THE POT ROAST CAME OUT LOVELY. Only problem was the thin aluminium pan burnt too much at the bottom. Even though I knew this from last time...

TWO OF MY ROBOROVSKIS were squabbling on a slice of burnt toast last night. Honking and squealing away. O, the bizarre life of the dwarf Mo...

NO I HAVEN'T LITERALLY GOT NITS OR ANYTHING... (not this year. Though I did catch them REPEATEDLY several years ago from the local bedr...

HOW ON EARTH THIS CAN HAPPEN I've no idea: I lost my keys IN MY ROOM while I was asleep. The door was locked (but not the window!~ aha!...

TALK ABOUT saving money and chucking the baby out with the bathwater: the drug service has new state-of-the-art creditcard-style urine test...

I HATE SLEEPING sometimes. It hits me like a disease and I get too much of it. Times and commitments go out the window as unconsciousness t...

I'VE ACHIEVED MY CHINESE CURRYMAKING AMBITIONS FOR NOW. Next week I start on purchasing haldi (turmeric) and other huge kilogram £1 pac...

I'VE FOUND a fantastic Chinese Curry Sauce mix. Got it from a Chinese market stall. It's the complete shebang: wheatflour and cocon...

I'VE SPENT THE LAST FEW DAYS in a sour mood. (No heroin.) Weighed down by 1001 thoughts and half-meditations. None of them nice... As t...

GOOD NEWS on my protracted search for an authentic Chinese takeaway-style curry sauce . As dumped over chicken curry mix vegetable fry rice ...

I'M FINE. Just a bit depressed. No overdoses, no great trauma. (I know it sets a bad impression every time I'm off for a few days. I...

FOR CHINESE TAKEAWAY or for...? Beef-ginger-spring onions mixed vegetable fried rice. Heroin. People say Chinese food only leaves you wantin...

YESTERDAY AFTERNOON I VERY NEARLY HAD AN ARGUMENT with one of my (surviving) best friends. It was over money for drugs. I got the drugs, wen...

BLUBBLUBLBUBLUBLUBBBbbbbbb.... Crying all the way home. Raining my own thunderstorm. I often think people's lives are like storms. All t...

I WEPT OPENLY IN THE STREET TODAY... what's the world coming to? I saw Lucky's "brother" (not by blood)/former lover/best ...

TODAY WAS MY FRIEND LUCKY'S FUNERAL. I did not go. Was feeling funereal enough at home with not the right clothes, not ready when I was...

POP STAR GEORGE MICHAEL has been caught misbehaving yet again in a public convenience. (Surely an inconvenience for him.) According to vagu...

A THUNDERBOLT OF INSPIRATION has struck me yet again. Another book! The story hasn't come in its entirety, yet much of the set-up has. A...

THE SONG GOES: Itchy's covered in fur; Itchy's covered in fur! Eee-aye-a-dairy-mouse, Itchy's covered in fur!! I cleaned out Pin...