Low life
Low life
‘I’m wasted,’ said Trev, meaning not that his life is futile, but that his mind was overwhelmed by illegal drugs.…
Low life
On Saturday night I went to Charlie’s 69th birthday party. What a gaff he’s got. The rather snooty description of…
Low life
After three days tête-à-tête (and sometimes tête-à-pied) I walked into town alone to get some air and see what the…
Low life
My first time back in the local for eight weeks. The manageress lifts the flap, comes around to my side…
Low life
Then there was the time I took Sharon to the Pamplona bull run. She looked very fetching in the traditional…
Low life
I was two days alone in the caravan and no signal or reception of any sort. It was like a…
Low life
Just when I was beginning to think I’d had enough, I was offered a free week in a caravan. I…
Low life
I couldn’t find the house so I called the number again. Instead of the man I’d spoken to previously, this…
Low life
As Sharon stooped to pour boiling water from the kettle into two mugs, I studied her back and wondered what,…
Low life
Sharon’s back. As soon as I heard, I went straight round to the house and let myself in. She was…
Low life
Two years ago, roughly, for a travel piece, I flew to Delhi and took a southbound train to a dusty…
Low life
In the blue corner, wearing 4oz gloves, is the Ninja. Real name Klynton. The younger of my two grandsons. Also…
Low life
On eBay car auctions one often reads of all sorts of reasons for cars being sold: birth, death, marriage, divorce,…
Low life
Depressed and demoralised after the defeat of his nation of farmers in the second Boer war, Eugène Marais, an Afrikaner…
Low life
Another sunny Sunday morning and the phone rings. I pick up the receiver. It’s Frank. I groan inwardly. Frank is…
Low life
My brother’s three Borders are called Roxy, Ruby and Taz. My one ambition in life is to own a terrier…
Low life
The catheter stung exquisitely when I lay down. So I stood up. All night I stood by my hospital bed,…
Low life
I’ve had a medical procedure that is ‘likely’ to leave me impotent. A nurse is coming around dishing out Tramadol,…
Low life
My boy was downstairs cooking Sunday roast. Earlier, I had been clambering about on a woodpile, stepped awkwardly, and twisted…
Low life
‘In my opinion,’ says Alistair Webster QC, author of the Liberal Democrats’ internal report into Lord Rennard’s droit de seigneur-style…
Low life
Every time I hear that song ‘Sex & Drugs & Rock & Roll’ played on the radio, I think, Lord,…
Low life
My first ride in a stretch Hummer. I haven’t lived, I now realise. The prodigious, ridiculous thing, tricked out in…
Low life
I shifted a chest of drawers that hadn’t been moved for years, and found an old photograph lying among the…
Low life
When the ticket collector asked to see my ticket, I took the opportunity to ask what time my connection left…
Low life
Until a fortnight ago there was a healthy, graceful, 70ft-specimen of Eucalyptus dalrympleana — or mountain gum — in the…
