Pharmacists are the most suspish crew ever. Ask them what to take for x, y or z, and they're all over you. Ask them about how much it costs, outside dear mother NHS, and they're putting out an APB about the dodgy pax making sinister enquiries all over the West End. Swear the last one I asked had my number before I even opened my cakehole. I don't have a snap of a sceptical Indian lady, so here's a photo of the Novartis campus in Basel.

'La Fille coupée en deux': Ludivine Sagnier deserves better, I have a soft spot for her because she looks a bit asymetrical from some angles. Benoît Magimel deserves better, I have not seen him in something his equal since he was rolling around on a Viennese toilet floor with Isabelle Huppert. Miss.Tic deserves better full stop, but we all have to pay the rent. But perhaps I just did not get it. Annoyingly, I cannot find a picture of BM looking exactly like a young de Niro, as he does several times in each film. Never mind, here's a picture of Benny and Ludi.

I went to that place at the weekend. The entire population of Gillingham, Chatham, Rochester and Strood were coming the other way. Here's an abandoned shopping trolley on the beach.


'La Fille coupée en deux': Ludivine Sagnier deserves better, I have a soft spot for her because she looks a bit asymetrical from some angles. Benoît Magimel deserves better, I have not seen him in something his equal since he was rolling around on a Viennese toilet floor with Isabelle Huppert. Miss.Tic deserves better full stop, but we all have to pay the rent. But perhaps I just did not get it. Annoyingly, I cannot find a picture of BM looking exactly like a young de Niro, as he does several times in each film. Never mind, here's a picture of Benny and Ludi.

I went to that place at the weekend. The entire population of Gillingham, Chatham, Rochester and Strood were coming the other way. Here's an abandoned shopping trolley on the beach.

In a meeting, this morning, someone actually used the phrase: "A basket of deliverables." He really said that. Without apparent irony. One of these days I will bite my tongue so hard it will bleed.
I took the afternoon off.
On the bus, looking down into the shops, it occurred to me: what must it be like to be a security guard in Mothercare? Sending for the cops to deal with persistent mitten thieves. Detain one person and get a smaller one free. The defendant and the dependant. I wonder if they burn out quickly, or become somehow immune.