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 […]

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.