and about time too…
When I started blogging I swore I wasn’t going to read anyone else’s blogs. But the best laid plans of mice (read Douglas Adams) and men oft go astray and now I would as soon miss my morning coffee as miss checking out the below writers. In fact I think they should quit their jobs and spend all day, every day updating their blogs so that I can read more.
Herebemonsters. The ubermensch has returned and this time he’s doing an MA in English Lit…check out the “what is the novel?” entries on the days you’re feeling exceptionally brainy. Achingly funny, screamingly sad, hairsplitting to the nth degree and always brilliant plus he got a book deal without taking his knickers off.
Mint-tea and Sympathy. Does exactly what it says on the tin. Collette is alive and well and living in Edinburgh. A wonderful, gentle, invigorating blog that makes you realise that the world isn’t such a bad place after all.
Bridget who? As a child who’s parents believed (and still believe) that the perfect home is a plot of land with a pile of rubble on it (so much potential) I am enthralled by her accounts of renovating her flat. Bridget, borrow that camping stove, pick up a pickaxe and don’t stop writing.
One Bad Way. A blog unlike any other blog I have ever read. It doesn’t pretend to be worldly, literary or wise and manages to be all three. Unfortunately defunct as the writers boss found out about it. He promises to return. I’m counting the minutes until he does.
Naked Blog Linking to this is like sending coals to Newcastle, if you read or write blogs then you will read the Naked Blogger. But if you’ve just found your way to this page cos you were trying to find out exactly what Dave Lee Roth did with brown m&m’s then do yourself a favour and hit the link. Simply unmissable.
A Free Man In Preston. I’m not entirely sure where Preston is. But should I ever need go there then I’ll follow the trail of mayhem and surrealism that this writer leaves. If you work in an open plan office do not attempt to surreptiously read this while pretending that you’re working - you’ll laugh too loudly.
Following in the tradition of all the best speeches, there may be some that I have omitted to mention. Sorry.