Not much news to report at present on the book front. The newly-rewritten manuscript has been re-submitted to a couple of houses who expressed an interest last time around, and if that doesn’t work then we shall go out more widely. Watch, as they say, this space. More excitingly, I am becoming increasingly consumed by my next effort. The original …
Angry Writers
If you dip your virtual toe into the community of would-be writers who haunt the internet, it’s astonishing the amount of bilious loathing that can percolate through the pixels on your computer screen. There’s a community of bitter writers who blog and tweet and post about how the entire publishing industry is aligned against them. They believe that there are …
Done. (Well done.)
It’s over. I realized last night that my last meaty meal would have been on the previous Tuesday evening, so technically my little experiment could end earlier than I had originally anticipated. Therefore, after a tomato, pesto and cheese sandwich for lunch (with hummus on the side) yesterday evening I ate some bacon. Interestingly, although I enjoyed it very much, …
Nearly There…
Tofu pad thai for lunch. Lentil soup for dinner. Really. It was delicious. What is happening to me? Chris Allen, one of an army of sympathetic commenters about this little project, was right: the yearning for flesh soon goes. I am no longer burdened by the yoke of meatless suffering that was getting me down a few days ago. I …
Whose Countin’?
Two days to go. Lunch was a homemade (= wife-made) cheese and tomato tart. Delicious. The trip to the parents-in-law was successfully negotiated, because we ate out. I had two grilled portabello mushrooms and some French fries, and a slice of “Texas toast”. I’m still not quite sure why Texas got the credit for it, but it was good. I …
No Meat Defeat: Days 3 and 4
That it should come to this. I’m eating so much fish my wife is worried I’m going to come down with Mercury poisoning. I’m so full of grains and pulses and assorted greenery that my digestive system appears to have gone into temporary shutdown. Apart from that, it’s all going swimmingly. Friday lunchtime was spent at 9th Street vegetarian institution, …
Carrot or Garrote? – Day 2
Still here, people. Here was yesterday’s menu: Breakfast: Special K again Altoids Lunch: Subway “Veggie Delite” Supper: Christina’s delicious homemade bean soup with sausage removed Yesterday was always going to be tough, as I spent all day down at the Lake, first meeting with a client and then doing Big Surf stuff. Hence the Altoids – my preferred method of …
Alex’s Neat Meat Feat – Day 1
Well, I made it through ONE DAY. Breakfast was easy enough: Special K poses no real threat. Sunday bacon will be a different matter, but let’s cross that bridge, etc. Lunch was slightly harder. I met Christina at Sycamore, one of our regular haunts for lunch. One of the most magnificent meals in all creation is Mike Odette’s utterly wondrous …
Eating Animals.
I love meat. Growing up in a family of devout foodies, I have always eaten meat, lots of it, and always with relish. I like my steaks still mooing. (Hell, I’ll even eat cows raw, when I’m in Paris. Bring on the steak tartare.) So I knew it was always going to be something of a gamble to read Jonathan …
Twit.
So, yeah, I have a twitter account. Of course I do. I’m just not entirely sure what I should do with it. I had the bright idea of tweeting my entire novel, 140 characters at a time, until I realized that if I did one tweet a day I would finally be finished around mid-November, 2024.