I’ve been writing a memoir, as you will know if you’ve been following this blog, and today I sent off the first 5000 words of it. Then I got stuck in to improving the rest of it: I’ve already written 50,000 words but they need a lot of polishing and organising. I got really into it this afternoon and the time flew by.
Then I went out for a walk and picked some elderberries to make wine.
Daniel is getting a lot better: he is still thin but putting on weight (I think I’ve got all his weight: what with all the stress and not having time to make proper meals, I think I’ve put on a few kilos so maybe we should arrange a swap of some kind. If only you could do that: if only you could have a fat transfusion and hook up with someone who needs all your excess fat, everyone would be a lot happier.)
The theme of the memoir is, paradoxically, forgetting. It’s called ‘I am the Anti-Proust’ and it’s an account of losing my memory and what happened next. I hope they’ll like it. I have to finish the rest by October so I’ll need to get cracking.
But! The big news is, Leonard Cohen has a new LP out! I get email updates from LeonardCohen.com and he has an album coming out called ‘Popular Problems’. You can hear a sample track here:
Blimey, that’s a long link!
Kirk out
Sarada Gray 