Unconfirmed Reports

Today my job consisted of editing a book of sex fantasies. I spent most of the time trying to identify the right alternatives for phrases like “getting off” or “getting it on” or “shagging”, keeping up the variety but also maintaining the essentially vanilla blandness and making it acceptable for Americans, who don’t understand any […]

My brother is now a postie. He does a mail delivery round on a motorbike, or maybe a motor scooter. Actually the job sounds pretty good - I am often surprised at how much these non-professional, “working class” jobs pay. Better than I get paid, I can tell you that.
Anyway, he has one house on […]

When I was in Galway last year, walking through the main square past some locals chatting in the cold, one said to another: I was born on a boat, you know.