Dream!
Monday 8:42 a.m. I took most of my stuff up to the hut about an hour ago. I hope to follow later on. Last night I had a dream where I was going on a long journey in a motor car. But the engine needed...
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Tuesday 8:30 a.m. Got to sleep about midnight and was up at half five. So I must have managed about eleven hours meditating yesterday. Also, brought home most of the stuff this morning which I took up...
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Apres Wifebeater day!
9:50 p.m. I got a phone call yesterday to go and see someone from Cloggieland who was up the Beef McDuck's. So all the wheels fell off the wagon, but I remember walking home which is good going when...
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Tonight's photies
Wednesday 10:05 p.m. Had a wonderful meditation up at the hut just as it was getting dark.
View ArticleAspirations!
12:30 p.m. Once when I was a much younger joe, I wanted to be perfectly in love. Once I wanted to have a perfect marriage. Once I reckoned there wasn't anything stopping moi being anything. I thought I...
View ArticleThe grannies!
I have to cycle from Shotts to ... well, I have to cycle for about an hour and a half tomorrow and then fall down and lie on the floor and give up to the world. Being a granny is very hard. Everyone...
View ArticleBits!
Friday 10:11 p.m. First of all, I'd like to thank the anonymous babes in the apache, black and white stripey jumper, who was gloriously demonstrating her bits in the pub tonight. Here is my bosom!...
View ArticleTrotsky!
11:05 p.m. I could give you a list of books that I loved, but I won't, but I read a lot of stuff by Trotsky when I was in my twenties. Trotsky's History of the Russian Revolution is one of these...
View ArticleThe Meditations and suchlike!
Saturday 1:45 p.m. They opened a Scotmid shop down the road which sells bottles of plonko collapso at half price, so for £4 you can get off your face on quite a nice vino. They should put a stop to...
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Food!
Saturday 11:11 p.m. The first thing you learn is you always gotta wait Between appointments, I managed up to the allotment to get some food. Oh, there's nothing so lonesome, lonely and queer, what a...
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Prostrations!
Sunday 10:30 p.m. I did my first prostration session this evening. Half and hour. I think a prostration takes about twelve seconds, so that's about one hundred and fifty prostrations. (Get me an...
View ArticleCharles Bukowski
Monday 9:30 p.m. It was another grey dull day and I felt as if I had been in too long, and so I hadn't been settled, or something like that, and I couldn't get the wee bit of the movie out of my head,...
View ArticleDespite myself!
Tuesday 4:55 p.m. After the stumblebumming about the place and the generally bad boy stuff from yesterday, the meditations today have been of a different order yet again. So there's no point in...
View ArticleDr Jeykll !
Wednesday 2:30 p.m. I feel as if I've just spent a couple of days with id. Hello, id! How is Mr Hyde doing these days, Hotboy? He's too alive and well, Jack, stalled in the corner with his viking...
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Friday 12:15 a.m. Interesting wedding day. Wonderful people. Both the bride and groom cried. There was a lot of dead people at that wedding. I left with two rolls with square sausages in them. Square...
View ArticleDifferent Kind of Friday!
Friday 1:05 p.m. The Domestic Bliss is at another wedding today and won't be back till the early hours. I'm thinking of cleaning up my room since I spend a lot more time in there these days. Maybe...
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More Friday Photies!
Friday 11:16 p.m. I did ten of Mr Iyengar's yogic jumpings this evening. Then I did the hundred prostrations. By about twenty five, the sweat was starting to mark the linoleum on the kitchen floor. By...
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Saturday!
Saturday 12:25 a.m. This is the Edinburgh in the festival. Also, there is a second batch of raspberries every summer. I felt very itchy today and had to go for a walk. What a fortunate creature to be...
View ArticleLast Week Resume
Sunday 10:14 p.m. The best laid plans ... I must say this holiday has not turned out quite as I hoped. Rarely have I done nine hours meditating a day. I only slept in the hut one night. I have had a...
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Fortuitous circumstances!
Tuesday or Wednesday 11:54 p.m. First fortuitous circumstance: Every night for ages they've settled down to watch a DVD in here. They eat huge meals then watch a movie. I'm joining in now since the...
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