Pendulum Even when it’s quiet I can hear the tock of a non-existent clock that prods me from rest with a bony-fingered ‘get up, there’s work to be done’. It’s king clock, a regal tock beating future’s ruthless march: the sneering crump of boot on road – by the left, tick tock! A chronographic […]
Coronavirus: Calling time on an unhealthy relationship
This time of pandemic was always going to be educational but this week, I’ve been surprised by what I learned. I have come to understand that I have a very unhealthy relationship with time – mine and other people’s. In the same way that the smoking ban revealed just what other nasty odours lurked beneath […]
Coronavirus: Beware the free-time fallacy
Stay at home, they said. Save lives, they said. It’ll only be for a while, they said. Look on the bright side, they said. Think of all that time to do the things you’ve been putting off for years. Shakespeare, they said, wrote some good material while social distancing from bubonic plague, and as for […]
