Gerry 1, Weather 1
1-all. That’s the score in the last two weeks as far as my having a ramble in the hills is concerned. Last week, I took a walk up Derrybawn. I’d been there before but figured that it might be a good route to get into the hills before all the snow had gone. And it […]
A Nice Cup Of Tea And A Book: 1977
It’s grim up north* At least it is in David Peace’s 1977. Bleak, gloomy and darker than closing your eyes at the bottom of an ocean where even those weird, ugly fish are scared to go. Awful, terrible, beautiful darkness. Peace just won’t leave you alone. His words gnaw and eat at you and his […]
Never Say Monday Again
INT. HAYES MEGALOMANIACAL GLOBAL DOMINATION HQ – MORNING GERRY, a ruggedly handsome, goatee-sporting rake in his 30’s (just), strides purposefully into the dispatching chamber. He stands at the bottom of the murder platform and crosses his manly arms. GERRY So, Monday... We meet again. MONDAY, strapped to the murder platform and whimpering like a girl, […]
A Nice Cup Of Tea And A Book: No Country For Old Men
OK, so I’m the suggestible type. I read The Road last week and was taken by McCarthy’s slightly unusual prose style. I decided I’d like to read some more McCarthy and No Country For Old Men seemed like an easy next step. Oddly enough, I’ve actually failed to catch the film yet so I went […]
A Nice Cup Of Tea And A Book: The Road
This one arrived today. Cormac McCarthy’s The Road. I’m hoping to get to see the film next week – weather permitting – and I really wanted to read the book before I did. The postie brought this at lunchtime and, bad father that I am, I bundled my daughter into the next room to rot […]
Feeling Polaroid
My new favourite app for the iPhone is ShakeItPhoto which allows you to turn your photos into splendidly crappy and brilliantly retro Polaroid images. I mean, look at these (click for bigger images at Picasa): Aren’t they cool. You can convert images already on your iPhone or, more likely, you can take a photo using […]
A Nice Cup Of Tea And A Book: The Death Of Bunny Munro
Who doesn’t like a nice cup of tea and a good book? As I quite like hearing about what others are reading, I (self-importantly, perhaps) thought I’d share the same information with you. So then, I’ve just started The Death Of Bunny Munroe by Nick Cave. About a third of the way through at the […]
Gerry Hayes
I mostly sit around all day and drink tea. Occasionally, I write stuff and send it to strangers so they can humiliate me and deride my efforts. Other than the self-harm to dull the shame of failure, it's not a bad life. Like I say, there's tea.
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