Low life
The catheter stung exquisitely when I lay down. So I stood up. All night I stood by my hospital bed,…
Low life
I’ve had a medical procedure that is ‘likely’ to leave me impotent. A nurse is coming around dishing out Tramadol,…
Low life
My boy was downstairs cooking Sunday roast. Earlier, I had been clambering about on a woodpile, stepped awkwardly, and twisted…
Low life
‘In my opinion,’ says Alistair Webster QC, author of the Liberal Democrats’ internal report into Lord Rennard’s droit de seigneur-style…
Low life
Every time I hear that song ‘Sex & Drugs & Rock & Roll’ played on the radio, I think, Lord,…
Low life
My first ride in a stretch Hummer. I haven’t lived, I now realise. The prodigious, ridiculous thing, tricked out in…
Low life
I shifted a chest of drawers that hadn’t been moved for years, and found an old photograph lying among the…
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When the ticket collector asked to see my ticket, I took the opportunity to ask what time my connection left…
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Until a fortnight ago there was a healthy, graceful, 70ft-specimen of Eucalyptus dalrympleana — or mountain gum — in the…
Low life
So I go to the all-night house party with my rolled-up yoga mat under my arm. Nice house, middle-class crowd,…
Low life
I went from the first yoga session of the New Year to the pub. I felt ever so noble. The…
Low Life
Christmas shopping in Waterstones, I came across a memory card game called We’re Going on a Bear Hunt. I snatched…
Low life
It’s a disgrace! I went up to London from Devon, a hick up from the sticks, to Annabel’s in Berkeley…
Low life
Can it be that the one single agreeable thing about getting old is that one loses one’s pot paranoia? No.…
Low life
The beer garden at the back of the pub was empty, save one woman sitting alone at a table contemplating…
Low life
Theresa May must have been a little disappointed. Her government limousine rolled silently to a halt at the rear entrance…
Low life
In the Spar shop I overheard someone talking anxiously to the woman on the till about an approaching ‘hurricane’. I…
Low life
We’d being trying to meet for lunch for weeks, but always something had got in the way and either she…
Low life
I’d been trying to curb the habit — one day at a time — and then I felt a bit…
Low life
I’d booked a private one-to-one session with her for an hour on the afternoon of the day she flew in.…
Low life
A surprisingly convivial atmosphere prevailed in the second-class carriage of the fast London-bound train when I stepped aboard at Bodmin.…
Low life
I went to a Tibetan yoga all-day workshop. Tibetan yoga is very simple. It would be hilariously so if it…
Low life
I woke up in the foetal position, on my back, on Trev’s tiny sofa, with an old curtain over me.…
Low life
‘Jeremy! Jeremy! I can’t believe it! There’s no bloody booze!’ I’d walked into the music room where Elgar and Fauré…
Low life
One evening last week, I trotted over to the caravan site’s clubhouse to use the wifi and pick up emails.…
